Word: smitten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of a "final" issue tempted us to break new habits and rediscover what we've cast off over the years. There was something inspiring about the crummy, faded pages of the "old school" FMs we unearthed. We were smitten with the concept of rediscovering the Fifteen Minutes that attracted rower-jock J.P. and pre-pubescent Aaron long, long ago. We're almost okay calling this issue a "humor magazine," formerly an offensive epithet. And so, as ex-Editor T.J. so pointedly predicted, we find ourselves "in the box" once again...
David's feelings for Ted, in fact, bordered on worship. He was particularly smitten by Ted's belief that modern man was being corrupted by society in general and technology in particular. "Knowing him as I do," Ted writes, "I am certain that if Dave had known of the Unabomber before 1989"--the year David moved in with Linda Patrik--"he would have regarded him as a hero...
...Crazy before it even begins. Popular girl (Hart) and rebel boy (Adrian Grenier) are neighbors. Popular girl wants popular boy. Rebel boy wants rebel girl. Popular girl and rebel boy feign coupledom (Can't Buy Me Love style) to make the ones that they only think they love absolutely smitten with jealously. Rather clever, eh? Of course you must factor in the "in"-crowd sunning in the courtyard (complete with a 90's style flagrant homosexual) and the outies making life miserable for the innies--in a way that anyone who was not a J. Crew pedagogue in high school...
...takes a yawn, and goes to sleep . . ." Amos says of her fabled friend. "When she does show herself . . . she demands that I become a hunter, a hunter of her frequency." Got that? Yet, even if you don't understand the Muse, never had a miscarriage and never been happily smitten, you can somehow understand the turbulent feelings in songs like "Riot proof" and "Haze". The album, particularly the live CD, showcases the passion that Amos so candidly displays in her performances, and although the words may confound you, you can feel her in the music more than ever...
Other musical numbers include "Afterlife Goes On," "Livin' Libido Loco" and "Shot, Stuffed and Smitten," which Grandy describes as a "sexy, romantic song...