Word: counters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wigs and gilded breeches; the lovestruck and the lunatic both mingling with gods. Fate is lowered from a trap door to walk with hunchbacks and adulterers. The fornicators wear brocaded robes and the chaste are no less adorned. What matters is the glittering recitative--the strange power of the counter-tenor and his haunting arias. The characters and their conflicts are secondary amusements; harmless distractions as each singer is guided or goaded into glory by the basso continuo. What matters is the music...
Brown's lack of offensive firepower--the team is averaging just 0.67 goals per game--will likely force the Bears to play a defensive minded game. Harvard is expecting the Bears to stack the backfield with defenders hoping to score solely on counter- attacks...
...right, tracing the path we took earlier, and end up back near the checkout counter and the same ultra-attractive salespeople looking decidedly unenthused about our return. "Research shows that the further into a store you go, the more likely you are to buy something. And as you can see this setup very cleverly forces you to go further into the store, and therefore increases your chances of buying something...
...Before this new knowledge of the decompression zone has fully decompressed--for several eavesdropping customers--we are safely out of the zone, and onto the catalogues stacked in front of the checkout counter...
...marketing. "They know that they're marketing to young people skeptical of consumerism, so they put in articles to try and hook them." Stopping on a particularly alternative-looking Abercrombie lad opposite an article skeptical of corporate greed, Schor shakes her head, "They're capitalizing on the notion of counter-culture from the 60's, when in fact they're as dominant culture...