Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...feel alive, an earthbound stargazer who dreams of abduction by alien spacecraft. His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia. "I woke up sucking a lemon," Yorke sings on Everything in Its Right Place, and the phrase is repeated again and again in a plaintive sample. Throughout Kid A he returns to the theme of restlessness, rootlessness and confusion. On the ethereal jazz breakdown In Limbo, he croons, "I'm lost at sea... I've lost my way." But as Kid A nears its conclusion, Yorke's disembodied...
...wonderfully complicated--a roiling package of arrogance, humility, bristliness and tenderness--but also cast Braugher, a specialist in depthful, surprising characters. Fresh out of Juilliard, Braugher was introduced in the 1989 Civil War film Glory as a Harvard student turned soldier. The neophyte didn't even know what the phrase "hit your mark" meant; star Morgan Freeman gave him a "five-minute crash course in how to act." He has since done film, TV and stage turns in roles from Henry V to an ex-con/karaoke singer in the current Duets...
...phrase in your article on Larry Harvey's Burning Man festival [LIVING, Sept. 18] hit a nerve: the comment that he moved the "punk-pagan celebration" from San Francisco to a "lifeless" desert northeast of Reno. I just spent four months working with people of the Paiute, Shoshone and Washoe tribes, who are indigenous to the Reno area. For them, the desert brims with life--animal, vegetable and human. How self-centered and arrogant it is for whites to think that a landscape without their culture and accumulated junk in it is lifeless. The puerile horde that invades the desert...
...mistake. He used the army against Quebec terrorists while forcing the English-speaking provinces to make services available in French. He led a rethinking of the constitutional structure of the country and its relationship with England. He sparked a Canadian orientation toward the Pacific Rim 20 years before that phrase became a byword in the U.S. Those were special years in Canada's life...
...TIME: And the "moral" is often a phrase that appears in the middle of a book and again at the end. For "Shopgirl," the phrase is "It?s pain that changes our lives...