Word: resisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sublime Sublime (Gasoline Alley/MCA). A good-hearted street riot of punk rock, avant-garde hip-hop and ska (a faster, jerkier reggae precursor), Sublime's music is hard to categorize and harder still to resist. The band is already defunct (the lead singer and songwriter, the puckishly gifted Brad Nowell, died of a heroin overdose in May), but no rock album this year sounds more alive...
...Weld has been good on the issue and he has a thoroughly Democratic legislature to work with," said Mikelson. "But a lot of those Democrats are from conservative suburban districts and they will resist this...
...splendid day after day, students would never get anything done. People would wander down to the river with a book or two and become sidetracked socializing, or perhaps close their eyes in the warmth and sleep in the sun. On a sunny day it's hard to resist a jog, a bike ride or a nap down by the river, and consequently grades would plummet from the happy B+/ A- territory to the occasional B-, and (ahhhh), maybe even C's would appear on a few papers...
...committed by America's right-wing and reactionary allies were ignored or even encouraged and praised using twisted anti-communist logic. For example, the Reagan administration pretended that the rape, torture and murder of civilians ranging from students to nuns in El Salvador was merely a legitimate attempt to resist Soviet encroachment in the Western hemisphere. These myths were also propagated by the mass media...
Could this be a two-step selling strategy in which the customer is tantalized by such warnings and then smitten by the puppies in the movie? It's a strategy I must resist. I'm not in dire need of a dog right now. There seems to be no way to escape the anti-Dalmatian media blitz, but I am going to skip the movie. Just in case...