Word: towns
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...This City," the song that concretely conveys this disillusionment, is a depiction of an urban neighborhood as an Audrey Hepburn character would see it. One can picture Holly Golightly's jaded visage at the "boarded-up...cinema" lamenting the "strawberry dreams & the dust-filled beams/shut down in a modern town." "Another Flavour" is perhaps the largest exception to the mature mellowness of the rest of the album. Its edge and high-energy pacing shows Tanya Donelly's influence on some of the Sundays' stylings...
...story of The Bacchae is probably rather familiar to most Harvard students by this point, but a quick summary shall be provided for those who are still confused: Dionysos is angry because the people of Thebes are refusing to worship him. He hypnotizes the town's women into running maniacally wild in the mountains. They are known as the Bacchae. Pentheus, the ruler of Thebes, tries to capture Dionysos in his human form. He also humiliates the god and his female band of helpers, called Maenads. Pentheus's secret desire to watch the lurid actions of the Bacchae...
Students should vote as they please today for whatever they think is just. But how can we ignore, for example, the fact that in Earlimart, Calif., a town surrounded by grape fields, the childhood cancer rate is 1200 percent of the national rate? How can we dehumanize the value of these grape pickers' lives. I am tired of people ignoring and making a mockery of the tremendous violations of human rights in our own country...
Talk Amongst Yourselves . . . President Clinton holds a town meeting on race. His initiative, characteristically, consists of empathy and dialogue...
AKRON, Ohio: Step aside, Oprah; go home, Geraldo, the job?s taken. President Clinton?s town meeting on race may not have clarified the objectives of his One America initiative, but it did showcase his stellar ability as a talk-show host. Assured, composed, informed and witty, he drew out the fears and concerns of his audience and gave them moments of cathartic laughter...