Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...involve face-offs between man and grizzly bear in the Utah mountains. Moreover, while most sitcoms in the '90s strive for some semblance of urbanity, Married...with Children has worked hard at maintaining a level of crassness unparalleled in prime time. Where else on TV will a character awaken from a coma thanks to a whiff of smelly feet...
...Mama Kin's Music Hall, lead singer and songwriter Mark Kozelek opened the performance with a stirring, acoustic cover of the uplifting Christmas song "Little Drummer Boy." Characteristically, though, he slowed its traditionally buoyant tempo to a wistful drawl, and altered the inflection of his voice so as to awaken the song's theme from idyllic celebration into a brewing confusion, questioning, and loss. What does Christ's ready-made love actually mean? And what's to be done now with these damned drums...
First, though, some vital preliminary work was undertaken. "Before we could make rational arguments, especially about the fear of communism," explains Satarov, "we had to deal with emotions." Yeltsin's approval rating was barely 5% in January. "We needed to awaken the lion by ending the President's invisibility," says Satarov. "We had to present him as a vigorous, active leader who has got the message and is trying his best." So Yeltsin, who at 65 has lived eight years longer than the average Russian male, went on a strict diet, lost 25 lbs., cut his intake of vodka...
...constituency that does not volunteer on campaigns, that does not care deeply about the issues involved in campaigns and that does not even bother to vote. The voice of America's youth can and must be heard --but it is going to take a shot in the arm to awaken younger voters from their apathetic coma. This year's election just may be that shot...
...works that seem suspended between contradictions--life and death, joy and grief, memory and loss. His imagery is radical, in the true, etymological sense of that word: "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap/ Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge/ Through living roots awaken in my head...