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... the chance; Vincent pointed the grenade launcher and fred. The explosion rocked the front of the vehicle. It remained intact but the pilot lost con... ... of shrapnel. One of the Fire- hawks caught a portion of the explosion. It rocked and swayed in the air but the emotionless pilot was able to bring i... ...s overkill. Four of the would-be heroes were making haste together when a rocket propelled gre- nade headed their way. They never saw what hit them. ... ...iper. He’s respon- sible for the murders of dozens, maybe even hundreds of rap- ists, gangbangers, drug dealers, murderers, and other scum. He’s toug... ...at’s going on. Our founders were concerned that the government was moving rap- idly toward dictatorship and the destruction of our civil liberties. ... ... “Hello…how about me? The most technical knowledge I have is downloading songs onto an iPod. I’ll chill in that lab with him.” “Uh uh,” Talbot insis...

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...isappointed them. Tonight, he would not need the teleprompter. What he had to say would rock the nation. Stone possessed a unique quality; even wh... ...you going to hang on to your job like an aging lion by his toenails?” “So, I’m between a rock and a hard place. Damn! Working with you is a constant... ... special event. Unless, I tell him otherwise, we’ll have a trio with guitars singing love songs.” “Would that make you uncomfortable?” Susan asked.... ...room. “Is this a bad time, General?” Radcliff turned and sat himself down on a cushioned rocking chair, which automatically began rocking in slow m... ...inner. Brand was deep in thought as he as lied on the bed, and suddenly he heard a soft rap on the door. A voice from the other side said, “Dinner ... ...smiled, and said nothing. In the middle of Susan’s enthusiastic escapades, Brand heard a rap on the door. “It must be Kidd and Cummings. Go in the ...

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..., shreds, all full of blood…" – She pauses – "Why do you treat me this way?" Her Hebrew is rocky but sufficient to provoke a heated debate with sup... ... he can rise. I hold him under hairy, damp armpits. I confront him, seated on my grandma's rocking chair, a cushion clad in Moroccan equine embroide... ...in venous green, a milky desert, crisscrossed with brittle capillaries and strewn with bony rocks. Beneath this tract was Janusz: his wondering eyes... ...oems and that you are willing to perform them." They were thrilled and Nomi settled on two songs – one that I liked and one that was her preference... ...nt freedom. I resented our forced estrangement. And so began my mutiny. Lured by the siren songs of far-flung lands, of sexual liberation, and of e...

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... was he to me in this inextricable laberinth like Ariadnes threed: in this rockie-rough Ocean, a guide- fish to the Whale; in these darke-uncouth way... ...ellished by such deriving; and doth it drive our noblest Colonies upon the rockes of ruine? And did they well? and prooved they well? and must we pro... ...en Whose spirits are all of one communitie. Whom neither Ocean, Desarts, Rockes nor Sands Can keepe from th'intertraffique of the minde, But that ... ... Thyestes, of Oedipus, and of Macareus, having with the pleasures of their songs infused this profitable opinion in the tender conceit of children. C... ...is Citie, and how far he extends him selfe about their exercises, sports, songs, leaping, and dancing, whereof he saith, that severe antiquitie gave... ...e of their sufficiencie. Besides what I have said of one of their warlike songs, I have another amorous canzonet, which beginneth in this sense: 'Ad...

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...ing uncertainly, but keeping out of the way of the inrushing water. Where rocks littered the beach, he allowed me to help him, and was soon apologiz... ... by a single window. Why were we in such con- trast? Laughter and outworn songs...swaying and shuffling...until the shutting of my door. Alone, I s... ...s message. Was this the Alcaeus who had joked and sported and sung ribald songs, as the popular friend of young men who were proud, rich, playful and... ...musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many songs and a lot of wine, Alcaeus slipped his arm through mine and suggeste... ...ate, a Nike on chalcedony, a nude girl on jasper, a fighting lion on rock crystal... Sappho is enjoying her collection: the sun, in her bedr... ...a spear. He can’t believe he’s wounded. It’s not his blood spattering the rocks... “A man lies beside his shield, a hole in his side. He can’t belie... ...ty. White House February 8th, 1864 This morning, early, I heard a low rap-rap on my office door. S. O. S. The Morse code... S. O. S. Tad, stil...

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....” “Poor Daniel. It must be all those romantic notions you get from the songs you sing. You know I have no heart to give.” “Except to polit... ...ts of light and billows of smoke. “Helene!” Daniel shouted again. The Box rocked with his panicked pounding as he crashed against it. “No, Danie... ...pounding began again with the ringing clang of metal against wood. The Box rocked and bounced, toppling the remaining lanterns and showering the in... ... not decipher. To slow him down, he Listen With Your Heart 65 hugged and rocked him. When he was calmer, Daniel held a finger to his lips and mad... ... invitation, Morgan reached for a cake. Anya rewarded her with a sharp rap across the knuckles with a spatula. “For da baby,” she scolded. Ho... ...pretense of culture. My audience prefers sentimental ballads and patriotic songs. And my talents are, or were more suited to those. But that’s al... ...as promised when I first got into this deal, or if you could stick in a few songs and you would sing them...” “Both of those solutions would requir...

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...r, they instantly forgot what they were doing and hurried over to the big rock where the Storyteller sat. The scarlet light of the three moons glis- ... ...ful, yellow teeth. Before long they had formed a semicircle around the big rock. Late- comers jostled for a place. Those who ended up at the back lash... ... opened his eyes and looked up at the Storyteller. The old man sat on his rock cross-legged as always, but now with his head clasped deep in his han... ...own the 6 Bozo and the Storyteller dunes, the long mornings of making up songs beside the wine-streams, and the nights of playing dot-to-dot with t... ...h they were taking a small piece of his dignity with them. He turned to a rap at the window and saw that Bozo was out on the window ledge. He jumped... ...wonder – the bright colours of the f owers, the scents of the plants, the songs of the birds in the trees – it was all a projection of the Storytell...

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...s of the large grazing animals. Hominids found that by taking a heavy enough rock and bringing it down with sufficient force onto a thigh bone, the... ...cially difficult task. Simply smash the bone hard enough with a heavy enough rock and it would split. This was the survival technique that saved t... ... upright and had their hands free, learned to create hand-tools by splitting a rock so it has a linear cutting edge which can be used to butcher a ki... ...H OF SPLITNESS Chapter Three: Hominids 173 these separated notes into songs and symphonies. By accumulating the separate notes of separate ... ...eople go to; and compare them to decide which one they like better? How many songs do people listen to; before finding out which ones they like best... ... with different inflections, and different interpretations of those different songs, etc. Fourthly… it is a competition. It assumes that entertaine... ...e and filth are taking over the souls of the younger generation: it’s called: rap. When did humans begin to dance in repetitive, ugly, boring ritua...

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...ncepts that we hold in high esteem. For example, do you like classical or rock music, more money or more free time? Or on a higher level it might be ... ...ers are merely looking for the shock value of being counter-culture. Some rock bands fit this category. You also sometimes have murderers or child m... ...o we expand them? Are our human rights violated when a criminal beats the rap when he was guilty? Are Norwegian taxpayers‘ human rights violated whe... ...c wand to let every impoverished waif wish upon a star, it seems that the rocket ship to high level economies is docked at the lowly sweat shop. The... ...h? ―Is the definitely erotic ‗Song of Solomon‘ or ‗Song of Songs‘ pornographic? Or is it the most romantic poem ever written. Is it a... ...original meaning of gay, it meant happy and carefree. Some of my favorite songs and stories use the word in this way. Undoubtedly some homosexuals a...

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...erstein stood out. Jordi showed a dogged ability to track down obscure 1950s songs that was almost scary. Addi- tional thanks go to Jennifer Ma, Tolu ... ...Finally, I need to thank the institutions who have supported this study. The Rockefeller Center in Bellagio provided an inspiring beginning. The Ford,... ..., musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the world— and make a living doing so if their work finds favor. ... ... culture. No one is reprinting the books, screening the films, or playing the songs. No one is allowed to. In fact, we may not even know who holds the ... ...ncti- monious preening of those who cast each junior downloader of corporate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative l... ...uld the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they have devel... ...oot- ers.” In response, Mr. Randle and his partner, Micah Nickerson, wrote a rap based on the stories of the people they were helping. On Sept. 6, Mr.... ... Digger” on the album Late Registration. Mr. West is an interesting figure in rap. At first he was shunned because his clean-cut looks and preppy clothi... ...a Woman” anchors West’s song. It provides its melodic hook. It breaks up the rap with a burst of musical nostalgia. But Mr. West’s gold digger is very...

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...set—but not her. Whenever the situation was right she could be counted on to break into song with the repertoire of Sophie Tucker, that 1920‘s songst... ... counted on to break into song with the repertoire of Sophie Tucker, that 1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked... ...ome imams salves their power drives with votives of violence. ―It‘s much easier for poor youths to burn cars and buses and to throw rocks ... ...b screws and iron masks pale to the rack, being lowered face down in boiling oil or lead, being tied to a wide wooden wheel and rolled down a rocky ... ...ove is. This idea usually relates to some romantic notion developed from an exposure to the fantasies of fiction in literature and to popular songs ...

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...e heard voices of he and his sister counting 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock rock. 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, twelve o'clock rock - Ghosts won't find me.... ...d seen, were left to crawl like worms, pushing their carts and singing their songs as traditional music blared forth. He died every time he saw one of... ...vous he became and the more hurried. When he became breathless, he sat on a rock and drank the last of his bottled water. The taste of sauerkraut and... ...oy standing at a curb with other pedestrians waiting for the light to change rocked a metal, rectangular trash container, which swung back and forth o... ...ft, maximum legal carbon emissions spat into the chaotic world, the bruit of rap music (his reflection) blaring from the CD player, and the motor's ca... ...ll the noise originated. Inside all was being barraged in the cacophony of rap, hip hop, or some other artillery that she had neither knowledge of n...

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...e evenings, Thai dancing, but it's not done any more. We used to sing folk songs and play old traditional instruments. Now we listen to music on the r... ...community and life wisdom were reinforced by folk tradition, stories, folk songs and proverbs of agrarian communities, much utilized in everyday speec... ...is resistance to Western entertainment, although people seem to be used to rock music. The table does not show that people’s ideas of what constitute... ...international techno-world. In Lampang, too, youth culture means clubs and rock bands. Teenagers hanging out around supermarkets want to behave and dr... ...to behave and dress like their contemporaries in international adverts and rock videos; they want to copy the self-assured achievers on TV, to use uni... ...dding music, but usually the band and vocalist play luk thung music or pop songs that villagers like. The informants of this book remember times when ...

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...table way, “but later we shall see. Is there any more diving into the deep rock-pool below the Bee-Rocks, Little Brother?” “No. The foolish water is g... ... withered, clank- ing when the hot winds blew, and the moss peeled off the rocks deep in the Jungle, till they were as bare and as hot as the quiverin... ...eant, fell back on stale honey, three years old, scraped out of de- serted rock-hives—honey black as a sloe, and dusty with dried sugar. He hunted, to... ...he’s shot, though. He’s the deota [godling] of these parts.” “Don’t care a rap,” another voice answered; he took about fifteen of my best coolies whil... ... all the clean winds, drew foul cloth over their heavy heads and made evil songs through their noses. It is better in the Jungle.” A hurrying cobra sl... ...ge never! Till the stone is lifted, and the Brahmins come down singing the songs that I know, and feed me with warm milk, and take me to the light aga... ...e dogs and the babies lay among the feet of the rowers, and the women sang songs as they glided from cape to cape over 101 Rudyard Kipling the glassy...

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...ce how the Appin murder has come to fall in the year 1751, how the T orran rocks have crept so near to Earraid, or why the printed trial is silent as ... ... I lay waiting to hear the ship split upon some 41 Robert Louis Stevenson rock, or to feel her reel head foremost into the depths of the sea, I have ... ...d fro the whole of the ninth day, within sight of Cape Wrath and the wild, rocky coast on either hand of it. There followed on that a council of the o... ...so there was nothing for it but to sit and hear Jacobite toasts and Gaelic songs, till all were tipsy and staggered off to the bed or the barn for the... ...spells to help them, and the whole company giving the time in Gaelic boat- songs. And what with the songs, and the sea-air, and the good-nature and sp... ...e came to one of these, Alan would leave me in the way, and go himself and rap upon the side of the house and speak awhile at the window with some sle...

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...ston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, ‘The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Met... ...ou might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling ov... ...orshipped the Great Spirit; and we kept the Maquas beyond the sound of our songs of triumph.” “Know you anything of your own family at that time?” de-... ...out, who approached or re- ceded from the shore, to avoid the fragments of rocks, or deeper parts of the river, with a readiness that showed his knowl... ...r situation more minutely. The river was confined between high and cragged rocks, one of which impended above the spot where the canoe rested. As thes... ...weeps oftener than she smiles. At such moments I forbear to press the holy songs; but there are many sweet and comfort- able periods of satisfactory c... ...hich it now seems was an especial ordering of Providence. So a judgmatical rap over the head stiffened the lying impostor for a time, and leaving him ...

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...le wall, com- bined with the mighty voice of the tempest, so that even the rocks appeared to shake. Though her sufferings were now becoming keener and... ...e count by moans, exclaiming:— “I fear a miscarriage! I clambered over the rocks last evening and tired myself.” Hearing those words, the count cast s... ...stinguish sounds, he heard the monotonous ebb and flow of the sea upon the rocks, as regular as the swinging of a pendulum. Thus places, sounds, and t... ...stant delight; his mother taught him music, and their tender, mel- ancholy songs, accompanied by a mandolin, were the favor- ite recreation promised a... ... his smiles, now, become a poet, he caressed her with his melodies. “Those songs give me life,” said the duchess to Beauvouloir, inhaling the air that... ...church when the organ plays and the clergy respond, there are two distinct songs speaking to each other,—the human voice and the music. Well, then, to... ...face of life at the sound of that voice. Though the emotion of terror thus rap- idly cast off had already in that instant, broken his heart, he gather...

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...eralogy in the University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s ... ...ves! “The Desert Dervishes,” they would call them- selves, and their chief songs would be those popular ditties, “In my T railer,” and “What Price Hai... ...hat balloon,” said Bert. Everybody now was looking at the balloon, drawing rap- idly nearer before a brisk north-westerly breeze. The song and dance w... ...the wind and is itself a part of the atmosphere. Once started, it does not rock nor sway; you cannot feel whether it rises or falls. Bert felt acutely... ...re instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells. T o the normal high-strung en- ergy of New Y... ...e Air wearing of buttons, the waving of small flags, the fireworks, or the songs. They forgot that, under the conditions of war- fare a century of sci...

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...eads defiantly. They covertly examined the woods, and paths, and masses of rock which flanked the road, after the manner of a dog with his nose to the... ...n their declivities other and lesser valleys full of dewy freshness. These rocky heights made a vast enclosure, circular in form, in the centre of whi... ...old blockhead. A pretty time to choose to let fools sail the ship! English rockets from all the head- lands, and those cursed Chouan cockchafers in th... ...ntly, with the well- known friendly gesture of moving the right forefinger rap- idly and repeatedly toward the nose. They came to him. “You served wit... ...ditch than a roadway, which led to La Vivetiere. The carriage now advanced rap- idly, leaving the escort to follow slowly towards the manor- house, th... ...riend; you have too much imagination for a soldier; you ought to be making songs at the national Institute.” “If I’ve too much imagination,” retorted ... ...y the last gleams of the sinking moon, she caught sight of the coach being rap- idly driven down the avenue of apple-trees. Mademoiselle de Verneuil’s...

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... and appears to have been an open temple of Cybele, formed on the top of a rock. The shape is oval, and in the centre is the image of the god dess, t... ...n the subject, and we find Bentley remarking that “Homer wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies, to be sung by himself, for small comings and good che... ...gs and good cheer, at festi vals and other days of merriment. These loose songs were not collected together, in the form of an epic poem, till about ... ... forced the national feeling of the Athenians to yield to their taste. The songs which spoke of their own great ancestor were, no doubt, of far inferi... ...t For brave Ulysses, still by fate oppress’d. Amidst an isle, around whose rocky shore The forests murmur, and the surges roar, The blameless hero fro... ...er aged eyes. “O whither, whither flies my son (she cried) To realms; that rocks and roaring seas divide? In foreign lands thy father’s days decay’d. ...