Word: vein
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...today who would be entrusted with the time and resources to reckon with it, but he is also one of the least likely to have brought it off. Whatever the considerable merits of his previous epic undertakings like The Civil War and Baseball, they did not have the rich vein of recklessness, the abandon and the humor, the rhapsodic beauty or deep darkness, that are all so much a part of jazz. They may have been terrific, but they sure didn't swing...
Meanwhile, British indie-rock mined a spectacularly rich vein of introspection, with great albums by Badly Drawn Boy, Coldplay, Travis and, of course, Radiohead...
...that doesn't even scratch the first vein of this gold mine," the elder said, chuckling. "Just think about it for a minute. Say it's Bush after all. You'll have a President who may well wind up with fewer votes than the other guy. And the Republicans will have maybe five votes to spare in the House and maybe one vote to spare in the Senate. Might even be 50-50. But look what some folks in his own party want from him--maybe ease up on the environment, maybe start naming those pro-life judges...
...most complex of the proposals. If passed, it would create a Health Care Council that would review and recommend health care system legislation to ensure comprehensive and high quality health care coverage for all Massachusetts residents. Although we support the spirit of this proposed law along the vein of universal health care, we are wary about its logistical implications and fear that the result may render a state health care system worse off than the one that exists today. We support the pretense of the proposal, especially that the law would require health insurance carriers to provide certain rights...
...Through the exploration of Hong Kong and Italy, the viewer gets a sense of the filmmaker's personal nature, rather than stock footage of a particular place or tourist location. It is this personal vein that is most evocative and interesting in Agnes's work, exploring places she has never been or revisiting ones from her past, in order to offer us something exciting about ourselves and the way we can look at the world through the newness of experience. Although Agnes's video is still in the post-production stages, one awaits the opportunity of not only seeing foreign...