Word: woke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like we woke up on October 1st and discovered the computer," Clark says...
When Brad Nowell woke up in a San Francisco hotel around 6:30 a.m. on May 25, his life appeared to be turning around. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter for the ska/hip-hop/punk-rock trio Sublime had a reputation for wildness and womanizing, but he was trying to change. He had been married the week before in a Hawaiian-theme ceremony in Las Vegas, and now he was doing what he loved, touring the country with his band, which had just finished recording an album that, to everyone who heard it, sounded like a smash. In fact, Nowell felt so good...
...took 15 years, however, for Mahler to grow into an obsession. In the meantime, Kaplan had founded the investment magazine that made his fortune, and thus had the financial underpinning for what seemed an impossible leap: from Mahler fan to Mahler interpreter. "At age 40, I woke up one morning and knew in my mind that I was going to conduct this piece," says Kaplan...
...approach the millennium, and we're no longer worried about a nuclear threat, the question is, Will there be an apocalypse, and if so, how will it come?" In ID4, it comes to us. Once man, and movies, dreamed of conquering space; then we got to the moon and woke up. Now sci-fi films are passive-aggressive: we wait for the spacemen to drop by. And if the visitors are hostile, we go nuclear on their...
...students graduating today, it is most fitting that the Commencement ceremonies take place inside Harvard Yard. Returning to the Yard represents coming full-circle for most members of the Class of 1996. Like generations of Harvard students before them, they began their collage careers inside its walls. They woke up to the tolling of the Memorial Church bells, read novels under the majestic oaks and played football on the grass. Now they return to the Yard, the place where it all began, so that they might celebrate...