Word: bleakness
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...album you'll hear echoes of A Whiter Shade of Pale in the powerful ballad Man; a hint of mid-period Beatles in the benign Latitude and the jaunty Please; a great big blast of the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil in the infectious, wondrously bleak Pain ("My name is pain/ You belong to me/ You're all I ever wanted/ I'm all you'll ever be"). But hey, 90% of everything is theft. John built these songs on solid, familiar pop-rock foundations and wedded his musical ingenuity--the other, crucial 10%--to Taupin's brittle, Delphian...
...face of the bleak picture she painted,Heyzer at the same time emphasized the power whichgovernments can wield in achieving "genderjustice." The Malaysian government, Heyzer said,significantly improved the lives of females bydeveloping a policy to educate rural women. Whenwomen migrated to urban centers, she said, theirskills and education allowed them to be easilyintegrated into the formal workforce...
...putting things. He has a real knack for producing fortune-cookie phrases that pass for universal truths in his world: "Money is harder to find than a true blonde," and "Success is just a fool's word for survival." These wisdom-bites accumulate and form an actual weltanschaung--bleak but authentic. Jimi emerges as a megaphone for the Generation we all know as X, a generation overeducated and underemployed by today's working world...
...Somalis would get their house in order" by now, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman John Shalikashvili said today in Washington. "They're on their own." TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says the general's epitaph may apply to any risky U.S. humanitarian rescue mission to come: "It was a bleak and compelling testament that there is an end to our patience...
Simple Minds set themselves the task of writing the musical equivalent of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland. They try to capture the same vision of a bleak present mixed with a hopeful future. Drawing on the confidence they find in their rejuvenated sound, their attempt is at once captivating and convincing...