Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...blaring out of a low-riding Honda Civic or the twanging guitars pouring out of a Chevy pick-up's windows, individuals and groups often used music as a projection of their identity. School dances always became the musical battleground, with half the attendees refusing to dance to a particular song or musical style. Insecure teenagers used the stability of a musical genre as a defining, constant characteristic of their still nebulous, gray self-conceptions. Therefore, when their musical preferences were challenged or criticized, they reacted explosively...
...particular bright spot for Harvard was the return of Karlen, the team's top player, who looked strong despite still feeling the pain of a shoulder ailment...
Harvard students in particular should protest, Taylor said, because the University owns about millions of dollars of Pfizer stock...
...personal struggles and awkwardness into laughter. In one scene, Tim sits huddled in a booth at a bar with a few comics, testing new material and firing jokes back and forth at each other. They appear like a group of loners, neither fawned over by women nor paid any particular attention by anyone, just poking fun at themselves, their condition and the situations they encounter. It is there, in those moments, that Gilman uncovers the essence of humor, that it need not be on a stage or in front of a national audience, but rather it is finding lightness...
...flow of the argument - adversarial, but often bordering on the arcane, at least for this idiot - also showed that some of the arguments in favor of broadcasting the court's sessions are probably exaggerated. In particular, the idea that the raw video would truly educate the viewing public more than legal analysts do seems a bit bogus, what with all this abstruse section 2 and section 5 and section 15 business. More likely, we laymen will focus on who gets off the best zingers - our armchair analysis determined by our pre-existing beliefs - then let Rush or Chris Matthews spin...