Word: weak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...folk, but her vocals are richer, and her songwriting is sharper. "I wasn't trying to be contrary or go against type," says Jewel. "I just wanted to be emotionally evocative." On Deep Water she sings with new authority; on Enter from the East she is tender but never weak. There's only one bad song on this CD: Fat Boy, a song about, you guessed it, a fat boy. "Oh fragile flame," Jewel sings, "when no one feels the same." Aieee! The song is a chilling indication of how wrong the rest of this terrific CD could have gone...
...piece together Sandler's stupid, bayou-bred mama's boy, Bobby Bouchet. Bouchet, after learning how to channel his aggression into solid hits, goes from being the village idiot/waterboy to being a tackle that makes William "The Refrigerator" Perry look like the Maytag repair man. The plot is weak, but Sandler's hilarious physical comedy is reminiscent of Jerry Lewis. You'll like it if you liked the others. Christopher R. Blazejewski
...educational institution, Harvard is dedicated to the development of ideas. Political repression, which seeks to stem the flow of ideas, directly contradicts this mission. Implied in protecting the development of ideas is protecting the people who develop those ideas. The intellectual community, therefore, becomes critically weak if it allows the silencing of dissent...
...thus. In this twice-a-year ritual of calling, I have often failed to raise funds sufficient for much more than a snack. Often I would gripe to myself that they had given me the dregs from the list; realistically, I also attributed these dismal results to my own weak salesmanship. This time, things started no better. Of the first dozen classmates I called, not one answered the telephone. Where were all those likely donors when I wanted them? To have nothing to show after a half-hour's work further depressed my already low expectations...
...really a ridiculous enough culture thatwe have to mislabel the floors of our buildings?Are we really that weak?" Kirchhoff asked...