Word: whiplashed
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...these kids--even the three who never found their birth relatives--were piecing together the puzzle of their life at whiplash speed. This is where you were born. This is the woman who held you. This was the city, the food, the smells. For them, it was two parts home ("It's so nice," Rae said amid a throng of Koreans on a street. "For once, people are staring at Kel and Jake instead of me") and three parts I'm-never-coming-here-again (a teenage boy ate dinner at his foster parents' home only to discover...
...does not suffer fools - or ringing cell phones, which he confiscates - gladly. He is widely appreciated by reporters covering the trial, in large part because he refuses to entertain the attorneys' urge to hear themselves speak, and while he considers every motion carefully, the trial is moving along at whiplash speed. In a little more than two weeks, the prosecution has presented its entire case and all four accused officers have taken the stand...
...Marley wrote ballads. Could De la Rocha ever see himself writing a love song? "Every revolutionary act is an act of love," he says. "[So] every song I've ever written has been a love song." From that perspective, The Battle of Los Angeles, with its scathing guitars and whiplash lyrics, is the most romantic CD of the year...
...bereft lover can be playfully vindictive, as in the up-tempo (You Remember) The Way It Never Was, where even the girl-group la-la-las in the background have the whiplash of a taunt in them. Or she can try to take the long view. In So It Goes a woman hears about the end of an affair in whispers; the news has the impact of a sudden death in the family. Yet, she tells herself, "The spring lies waiting beneath the frozen ground/ And I'll be seein' you around/ So it goes...
...WHIPLASH...