Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university is well structured, well tooled to turn our people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well-rounded to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time, questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend...
...know that it still floats through in its purest form in the jazzy and introspective "All the Love." She also goes back to her old European melodic style in 'Suspended in Gaffa." The incomprehensible lyrics follow a melody as appealing as "Oh To Be in Love" as they wander about on a waltz tempo. She doesn't really need these flashbacks to maintain her image, though. Despite the superficial changes in rhythm, voice and musical texture, the album has the same surreal spirit as its predecessors. Kate Bush is still alive and well and living in a world only...
...month later, certain warning signals told Lewis that the army had given up trying to train his brother, and was using force." Benjamin's "dishonorable discharge" spares the twins from physical injuries, but the word that both are slackers and shirkers informs the neighborhood against them. Neither can wander far from home without encountering taunts and jeers. By the time the war is over, "the twins' world had contracted to a few square miles...
...whole picture begins to come apart. The brawny Nolte looks as if he could blow the willowy Murphy away with one punch. But the brawl ends in an obviously fixed draw, and a suspicion that everything else is equally rigged begins to nag. The uncaring mind begins to wander questioningly toward many a dubious plot point. Where did the bad guys get hold of a city bus for a getaway? And what good do they think the clumsy thing is going to do them anyway? There can be no doubts on one matter, however: as the psychopath who causes...
...There should be a great, free, living stream of information, and equal access to it for all," Liebling wrote. "Our present news situation, in the United States, is breaking down to something like the system of water distribution in a casaba, where peddlers wander about with goatskins of water on small donkeys, and the inhabitants send down an oil tin and a couple of pennies when they feel thirst...