Word: whilst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hard to tell how to take what happens next: Iggy rocks out, albeit with a new song. Whilst Iggy was crooning all acoustic like and you were paying attention to the audience, his band members ambled out sans subtlety and picked up their instruments, so that when the next song is loud and fast, it's neither surprising nor especially heartening. Is Iggy, y'know, disavowing this soft and earnest crap he was just feeding us? Makes it worse if even he doesn't have his heart in it. This new song: "Ya yo hablo espaol" goes the refrain ("Espaol...
...frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! Whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away... --John Milton, Lycidas...
There are the obvious ones, of course. I first had romantic contact with a girl whilst music was playing (it was a dance). I remember MTV as well as you do. I even remember loving certain songs as a five-year-old because of the drumbeat they had. Remember "Maneater?" What a great song. First Girlfriend? I was introduced to and continued to talk to her because we both loved U2. Other girls? We always had similar musical taste...
...subsequent editions, he included God in the evolutionary process. The book now ends on this glorious sentence, over which Raven exults: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved...
Think quickly: Where were you on August 27? That, according to NASA scientists, is when the biggest Earth-bound burst of gamma rays and X rays ever recorded pummeled our planet's upper atmosphere, disrupting radio broadcasts and satellite transmissions -- whilst the occupants, safely sheltered beneath a thick blanket of air, remained largely oblivious. The source of this blistering radiation: a tiny star, measuring a mere 12 miles in diameter (roughly the size of Washington, D.C.), speeding more than 20,000 light-years away on the other side of the Milky...