Word: preferable
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...prefer music with a bit more of an edge, there's plenty of that to go around this summer. Ozzy Osbourne, fresh off last year's suceessful "Ozzfest," plans another of his modestly-titled hard rock tours. Among the supporting players: Pantera, Godsmack and Methods of Mayhem. Metallica is also slated to hit the road, playing with Korn, Kid Rock, Powerman 5000 and System of a Down on their "Summer Sanitarium" tour. That heavy dose of metal kicks off June 30 at Foxboro Stadium and continues to other stadiums, speedways and arenas. Meanwhile, grunge lives on with Pearl Jam (fronted...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...would prefer if Ralph Nader was not running," the Gore supporter said. "A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush...
...when kids have idle time but can't behave like kids," Komisarjevsky said. "Plan for that." If you travel by car, for instance, identify fishing or swimming spots along the route to give kids a break. On planes, let older kids sit separately from parents and siblings if they prefer...
...drama of Jesus' story is that he is God and man; his body is passionately at odds with his soul. But many viewers prefer prim Bible stories (hence folks who deplored Harvey Keitel's Brooklynite Judas in The Last Temptation of Christ don't mind Hebrew Apostles who sound like British lords). Sisto gives them an Al Gore-like Jesus, who stiffly recites scriptural lines and whose chief means of showing emotion is shouting. He may laugh and cry, but so rigidly and unnaturally you end up hoping for a reappearance by the comparatively interesting Satan--played by both...