Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Silverglate said principles of academic freedomand liberty, for example, are being subordinatedin order to maintain "peace and quiet on campus...
...deep that I can't be swum..." There's also a incongruously, startlingly cool falsetto bridge where head Egg Andrew Beaujon sounds exactly like Prince (with a temporarily funked-up backbeat to match). "Why Am I So Tired All the Time?" and "Evanston, IL" are quiet, slowly oscillating incarnations of post-teenage despair, as if a male lounge-jazz singer were suddenly infused with the authentic spirit of the late Joy Division. "Conchita," which I think is a plain old love song (though it's real hard to tell), does all the work of a classic Tin Pan Alley composition...
...FRESH, WHITE SNOW DREW THEM OUTside. A group of laughing children, the youngest 4 and the oldest 14, trooped out of their Sarajevo apartment building to play. It seemed safe enough; the Serb artillery batteries lining the hilltops around the city had been quiet for several days. Besides, the children were inside a U.N.-declared safe zone. As the Muslim boys and girls shouted and rode their sled, 120-mm mortar shells landed with a roar. The children dropped to the ground and then, when more explosions followed, ran for the beckoning safety of their building. Inside, fearful families rushed...
Just when it looked like the Crimson would forge a lead, however, Yale woke up from its late-game slumber to garner the win. Yale star Damon Franklin, who had been kept quiet most of the contest, stole a pass for an easy lay-up and then hit a monstrous 23-foot three point shot to ensure that Harvard would never regain the lead...
...Liam Neeson's outstanding performance. Neeson presents a remarkably full-bodied character; the charmer, the rogue, the womanizer, the profiteer and the hero in him all get their due. Neeson is ably supported by Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. Kingsley is a marvel as Itzhak Stern, summoning up fierce, quiet dignity and sly humor, while Fiennes is terrifying and complex as Amon Goeth...