Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because Cambridge and Boston are "in robust health," the University does not face the immediate problem of an unsafe or economically downtrodden location, according to Grogan...
...move quickly: These prices are only the starting point; actual tabs could run quite a bit higher. Members of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee expect 10 percent of the first tickets made public to be auctioned off online. And who is looking out for the downtrodden members of the International Olympic Committee? Organizers are quick to assure the press that members of the IOC will be asked to pay for their own tickets. ?They?ll probably say no,? SLOC president Mitt Romney said at a press conference Thursday. ?But there?s no harm in asking.? Romney shouldn?t feel...
...humanity that worships Che has by and large turned away from just about everything he believed in. The future he predicted has not been kind to his ideals or his ideas. Back in the '60s, we presumed that his self-immolation would be commemorated by social action, the downtrodden rising against the system and creating--to use Che's own words--two, three, many Vietnams. Thousands of luminous young men, particularly in Latin America, followed his example into the hills and were slaughtered there or tortured to death in sad city cellars, never knowing that their dreams of total liberation...
...best songs on the album is Ghetto Prisoners, a stirring call for the poor and downtrodden to stand up and resist the powers that keep them down. "Get up/ Wake up/ Rise," raps Nas. Another sharply realized song is Undying Love, a violent tale of a man who kills his cheating lover and then himself. Other, less talented rappers might have turned the song into something venomous and exploitative. Nas' rendering of this bloody story reminds one of Bruce Springsteen's spare, misanthropic songs on Nebraska, or even of Raymond Carver's terse short stories. The last line in Undying...
...shift in the core of the fantasy (it's very subtle, try and follow me) is not that any downtrodden wallflower can blossom into a prom queen, but that there exists in this world a three-dimensional male creature who is beautiful, intelligent and sensitive. And I'd pay money to see that. Where else can you find one of those but in the region of unabashed fantasy...