Word: whims
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Created on a whim one afternoon, it’s a remarkably versatile work, with moments that are aggressively visceral, irreverent, intensely paranoid and eerily beautiful. Missy Elliott’s familiar “Get Ur Freak On” crashes into violent breakcore shards from DJ Scud and militant boom-bap from Dead Prez early on, yet an hour later the listener is swimming deliriously in the audio experiments of Oval and Muslimgauze. But DJ /rupture’s real brilliance lies not in his eclecticism, an aspiration that Clayton finds “horrifying?...
...just gotten out of jail,” she said. “Erica had moved here on a whim. I wasn’t going to interrupt anything...
...relationship between Uribe and Santos became strong enough that when Uribe asked Santos to be his running mate, Santos “seized the opportunity” on something of an emotional whim. “I think if [the decision] had been a totally rational one, I wouldn’t have gone into politics,” Santos says. “Here, to be a politician is very risky.” Indeed, only last week the two survived a bomb attack on their motorcade. “Though our lives are in danger at every second...
...perhaps self-evident to note that playing the piano is an entirely different proposition than, say, playing the violin. Whereas a violin fits snugly into a carrying case and is transportable at the owner’s whim, there is a whole profession dedicated just to transporting pianos—and it usually can’t be done without a couple of burly movers, a rolling contraption and some hefty dents in the soundboard. As a result, few college students truck their family-room spinets anywhere at all, let alone to their schools of choice. Their desire to continue...
STEVENS: And there’s more where that came from. If you don’t start paying whatever suits our whim, we’ll take civil disobedience to the next level: blocking little old ladies from crossing the street...