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...equally troubling, question: Will the most expensive plane ever built-and the B-1Bs will be that by anyone's estimate-do a significantly better job of penetrating Soviet air defenses in case of nuclear war than the aging (20 years and up) but still quite serviceable B-52s that they will replace...
...easy to tell exactly what will happen for a song's duration after hearing its first licks. The album's first cut, "Friend or Foe," features a bass line straight out of the B-52s' "Rock Lobster." It doesn't help...
...long, low dog as a "datsun" gets the same neighborly attention as a pastor's wife who plays electronic games rather than attend one more workshop like Christian "marriage enhancement." In true short-story tradition, the insights and epiphanies are spring-loaded. A rock group called the B-52s sounds like "a crazed parent abusing a child, thrashing it senseless." A wife realizes that her husband is afraid of women and feels "so sick and heavy with her power over him that she wants...
...bird to question the guide's true cool. The adulation bestowed on the Hostess Chocolate Cupcake unwittingly seemed to prove the book's premise: "In a world of ever-encroaching uncool, it has become harder and harder to distinguish the real thing." Salutes to Blondie and the B-52s don't seem quite right for full-fledged hipsters and flipsters. Neither does the image of skinny-tied dudes with Elvis' haircuts watching "Flamingo Road," one of the members of the all-time TV list...
...problem is that the U.S. seems incapable of conducting military maneuvers quietly, without jarring the sensitivities of the moderate Arabs and setting off backlashes. Last year's Operation Bright Star rushed 4,500 R.D.F. personnel to Egypt with great fanfare and the highly publicized spectacle of B-52s bombing targets in the desert. This year, when the Pentagon began planning a new war game, code-named Jade Tiger, Washington discovered that Cairo was reluctant to play. In addition to resenting last year's headlines, the Egyptians were miffed because, in their view, the U.S. had failed...