Word: approached
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...most part, the songs on this UK-top-10 album use the music as a point of departure, and that approach works. In Handel's "Largo from Xerxes," the sounds drift by: shimmering chords, spacey burbles, eerie bells, groans, rumbles, tinkling chimes, thumping bass and more. This is pleasing, unobtrusive mood music, where pure sound is the main attraction...
...disturbing point is the lighthearted, almost careless approach of the characters toward each of these complicated relationships. Perfect Days begins in the stylish Glasgow loft of its protagonist, Barbs Marshall (Linda Carmichael), a successful hairdresser to the fashion elite. Barbs has money and style, but with a mother who doesn't understand her, a non-existent boyfriend, and an estranged husband, she feels exceptionally lonely. Her loneliness is compounded by the fact that she's not getting any younger: the dreaded 39th birthday is only a week away. So to remedy her self-esteem problems, she decides to have...
...uproar over Bush's casual involvement with those interested in the "Southern heritage" reflects the same approach to uncomfortable periods of history. All memory of a period when great crimes were committed must be expunged and remembered only for the great mistakes that were made. This is not a mature way to approach the past. It is vitally important that we understand and accept that all societies and eras had flaws, just as in contemporary America there is much that does not accord with our highest principles. The best memorial to the sufferings of the past...
Interstate 10, bound east to west, is a nonstop train of dreamers. Barreling through the desert, they come in search of the cheap thrill, the easy score, the fast women, the sugar daddies. On their final approach, they can already begin to make out the pale halo of the city's lights--lights that can be seen from outer orbit, against the dark face of a planet couched in the shadow of night. They make their way down to the strip and all around the city. They're greeted by a madman's dreamscape: castles made of sand, built with...
Harvard does not characteristically take the lead on issues like distance learning, Pei said, instead choosing "a measured approach...