Word of the day: Choppy

Choppy : que faz movimentos rápidos,  agitado, encapelado, encrespado (ondas), gretado, rachado, fendido, cortado

Synonyms: bouncy, wobbly, broken off, wimpled, capricious, wandering, catchy, rough with small waves, changeable, variable (vento), interrupted by ups and downs

“…then these radiant white paper pillows are perhaps the whitecaps of a choppy sea.”(www;latimes.com / May 21, 2012)

“Economic indicators and corporate earnings in the U.S. continue to signal recovery, albeit  a choppy one.” (www;latimes.com / May 9, 2012)

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QUEEN - Under Pressure

QUEEN - Under Pressure

Fonte: www.lyrics007.com

Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure - that burns a building
down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming let me out
Pray tomorrow - gets me higher
Pressure on people - people on streets
She been around
Kicked my brains round the floor
These are the days it rains but it never pours
People on streets
People on streets
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming let me out
Pray tomorrow - high higher
Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work
Keep coming up with love but it's so slashed
and torn
Why - Ooooh
Insanity laughs under pressure we're
cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more
chance
Why can't we give love
Give love give love give love give love
Give love give love give love
Love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves

This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure 

Susan Boyle duets with Elaine Paige "I know Him So Well"

Susan Boyle duets with Elaine Paige "I know Him So Well"

Fonte: www.stlyrics.com

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally,
Perfect situations must go wrong,
But this has never yet prevented me,
Wanting far too much,
For far too long,

Looking back,
I could have played it differently,
Won a few more moments,
Who can tell,
But it took time to understand the man,
Now at least I know
I know him well

Wasn't it good?
(Oh so good)
Wasn't he fine?
(Oh so fine)
Isn't it madness,
He can't be mine?
But in the end
He needs a little bit
More than me,
More security,
He needs his fantasy and freedom,
I know him so well

No-one in your life is with you constantly,
No-one is completely on your side,
And though I'd move my world to be with him,
Still the gap between us is too wide,

Looking back,
(Looking back)
I could have played it differently,
(I could have played it some other way),
Learned about the man,
Before I fell
(I was just a little careless)
But I was ever so much younger then,
(Maybe, so much younger then)
Now at least I know
I know him well

Wasn't it good?
(Oh so good)
Wasn't he fine?
(Oh so fine)
Isn't it madness,
He won't be mine?

Didn't I know?
How it would go,
If I knew from the start,
Why am I falling apart?

Wasn't it good
Wasn't he fine?
Isn't it madness,
He won't be mine?

But in the end,
He needs a little bit
More than me,
More security,
He needs his fantasy and freedom,
I know him so well,
It took time to understand him,

I know him so well. 

Beyond compare

Beyond compare: acima de qualquer expectativa, sem igual, incomparável

“A visual stylist beyond compare, Malick emerged during the golden era of 1970s…”  (www.nytimes.com)

Word of the day: Afterthought

Afterthought:  reflexão tardia, meditação ou explicação posterior,  malícia

Synonyms: an idea occurring later, turnaround, change of mind,  right-about-face,  reversal, something (as a part or feature) not thought of originally

“The fact was hidden deep in the report, almost as an afterthought.”

“The lounge was added to the office as an afterthought.” (www.merriam-webster.com)

American Presidents

BARACK OBAMA is our 44th president, but there actually have only been 43 presidents: Cleveland was elected for two nonconsecutive terms and is counted twice, as our 22nd and 24th president.

EIGHT PRESIDENTS never attended college: Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, A. Johnson, and Cleveland. The college that has the most presidents as alumni (seven in total) is Harvard: J. Adams, J. Q. Adams, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, J. F. Kennedy, and George W. Bush.

THE OLDEST president inaugurated was Reagan (age 69); the youngest was Kennedy (age 43). Theodore Roosevelt, however, was the youngest man to become president——he was 42 when he succeeded McKinley, who had been assassinated.

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