Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inclined I tend to lose it than confront my mind." Of course it wouldn't be a true rock album without references to drugs, which are ample. Yet most of the songs harken back to the theme of relationships, how men treat women, and how betrayal and pain can wrench them apart. With the exception of a guest appearance by Marcy Mays, all tracks are sung by Dulli, whose voice is pretty average. Nevertheless he makes up for this blandness with an exceptional delivery, here biting some of his lines, there almost seeming to sing around the words...
...council's decision throws a wrench into the club's plans to include women in this fall's "punch," or membership selection process. It also means that the Woman Appealing for Change (WAC) boycott against the nine all-male final clubs will continue to apply...
...expected play with his cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin) convince him that he is skating on thin ice, at times literally. But to grownups, Henry appears so harmless, and Mark himself has been acting so unstable since his mother's death, that no one will listen to him. Will Mark wrench the scales from the world's eyes, or will Henry hoodwink humanity with his sheep's clothing...
...Since they cannot slug it out on the basis of policies, they compete in terms of patronage -- which in turn creates pressure to raise yen under the table. Hata's plan was shot down in 1991, however, when many of his colleagues saw that the reforms would throw a wrench in their own political machinery. "He has been a committed true believer ever since," says a professional acquaintance...
...hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke. Dickensian is too amiable a word for Jonathan's ordeals. He slept on a dirt floor with the animals. He was horsewhipped and chained after he tried to run away. One night Alvah and a traveling salesman subdued Jonathan and with a copper wrench pulled all his teeth, which could be sold abroad for $2 each...