Word: vaines
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Helen encourages Jenny to update her wardrobe, pointing out that David would gladly buy her anything she wanted, Jenny is confused: “Why would David want to take me shopping?” This kind of natural, charming innocence keeps the audience sympathetic toward Jenny despite her vain, often painful attempts to seem old and sophisticated, the most embarrassing of which are her frequent, unprovoked outbursts of French...
...back, has always shown great promise, said the right things, affirmed every time he opens his mouth that he understands the fears we face and the hopes we hold. But he presides over a capital whose day-to-day functioning has become part travesty, part tragedy; wasteful, blind, vain, petty, where even the best-intentioned reformers measure their progress with teaspoons. There comes a time when a President needs to take a real risk - and putting his prestige on the line to win the Olympics for his hometown does not remotely count...
...ramp up the “good war” in Afghanistan. The United States hasn’t won a ground war in over half a century, and now one of the smartest presidents in modern American history thinks he can win two of them. One struggles in vain to find the logic in this lunacy...
...some of its finest lyricists in the glow of their youth, a living legend’s promise to stick around is certainly well-received. While a true retirement is inevitably in the works for Jay-Z at some point in the future, his latest effort is less a vain attempt at new heights than an expertly crafted reminder of just how he reached the top in the first place.—Staff writer Roxanne J. Fequiere can be reached at rjfeq@fas.harvard.edu...
...celebrated predecessors. The lyrics, though not the album’s main selling point, convey a stirring honesty. In “Sometimes Love,” she sings, “Sometimes love is an empty invitation / Sometimes love is a word that’s used in vain / Sometimes love is just something that people say everyday / And I don’t want it that way.” The songstress certainly does not provide us with another “You’re So Vain,” but she manages to hold...