Word: making
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...Soul Mountain" in the original, she presents it in a strange and often irksome form of English. Run-on sentences sprawl: "I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I'd still be waiting to get cremated." Redundancies abound: "The tall buildings and large courtyard with a watchtower must once have been the residence of a rich and powerful family at one time"; "I have a foreboding premonition." Some usages defy explanation: "Many pretty young girls have...
...used the same microphone and we never overdubbed anything. What you hear went down on the track as it went down. George and I just harmonized, blended well together. We just kind of knew where the other one was going with the lyric and... we wouldn't make any mistakes. So we'd [finish] a lot of songs on the first take...
...opinions he was never more vociferous than when he was declaiming about the Beatles. The loud cacophony produced by this new quartet was fractured mosaic to his ears. Not only were they talentless and tuneless, he would say, they were transient. "Zey vill never last!" he cried. "Zey make noise and zen zey are forgotten...
...think that is an illusion. The recent developments make it very difficult for Arafat even to reach an agreement with any Israeli leader, because Arafat has Arabized the conflict, Islamicized it - made it a concern of the whole Islamic world. Arafat is now not in a position to help Barak. Even if there are new talks, what's going to happen is that a crazy Hamas guy will turn the table upside down by setting off a bomb somewhere...
...think also that the intifada has conveyed a message to Israelis, both left- and right-wing, that they cannot trust the Palestinians. Will Arafat be able to make the Israelis trust him in six months? It would take centuries, not months, to win back their trust. In fact, if Arafat is seen to be supporting Barak, that would be a problem for Barak himself...