Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the last four years, I have sat through countless tutor training sessions in which University Hall stressed that we should monitor our students' emotional well-being and be there to help them through their ups and downs. I wonder if the Dean saw the pain in the expressions of these young men when they heard his response to their query. I wonder if the Dean recognizes that this is a pattern of behavior that could have an impact on all students at Harvard. I wonder why the Dean has not set up a discussion in Claverly Hall to help...
While these English alternoids have been acclaimed by the British press, one cannot overlook such egregious flaws on their first album as song intros that evoke modern-day classics like Oasis' "Wonder-wall." The semi-title track "Polythene Girl" and single "Cement" stand out as acceptable contributions to the category they generally get lumped in: poppy British space-rock. On the other hand, the rest of the album is just more fodder for the genre's growing scrap heap. Feeder, a threesome, seem to focus on song lyrics about drugs and problems with girlfriends, but hey, who doesn...
...first track on Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, "Get Higher," begins with the announcement from a Ronald Reagan impersonator than, unfortunately, there is a marijuana shortage. This is the kind of thing that makes one wonder why the band is bothering to play. But by the time "Reagan" announces that furthermore, he and Nancy are also hooked on heroin, the beat on "Get Higher" has set up shop in the listener's mind, and nothing could seem more logical than the rhythmic wailing that follows the sound...
...high quality of the body of work of black soul musicians in the '60s and '70s never fails to impress me. I have personally collected the music of such widely known greats as Stevie Wonder, The Supremes and The Spinners, as well as equally deserving but less commonly recognized artists such as Bobby Womack, Arthur Alexander and Phyllis Hyman...
...conferences and fact-checking sessions. People had some time on their hands at the beginning of the week and were thrown together in a late-night crisis atmosphere at the end of the week. All the writers and editors were male; all the researchers and secretaries were female. No wonder there were so many wedding invitations and mortifying scenes in the halls...