Word: acidizing
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...late 19th century middle classes in America. Her novel is dense with such tiresome detail as the Zinn family's favorite books (Blanche of the Brandywine and Polly Peablossom's Wedding), songs (What Is Home Without a Mother?) and underarm deodorant (chloride of lime and powdered salicylic acid). Oates' heroines quote liberally from the world's worst verse, culled by the author from such works as The Ladies' Wreath, a Magazine Devoted to Literature, Industry and Religion. But what the women in A Bloodsmoor Romance seem to do most is knit, embroider and crochet...
...summer living communally in a house in Somerville, where they slept five people to a room and all used one bathroom. At night, cast members would read passages aloud to one another from such books as the Autobiography of Malcolm X and Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test...
...vulnerable rock world and shaking it out of its mid-'70s doldrums. Although Costello was never really a part of the Pistols' punk movement, he found a comfortable niche anyway, "surfing" on the new wave, as he likes to put it. A pumped-up Steve Nieve keyboard; an acid-tinged tongue; a bitter searching voice--these were the early Costello trademarks, and they even betrayed at times a vitriol seldom equaled by the best of the punks...
OFCOURSE what got lost in the shuffle was that the distinctive organ sound overshadowed some very deep rock roots and sensibilities. That acid tongue blighted some very heartfelt emotions and a sophisticated political consciousness Costello understands, as the Clash never will, that political involvement must start on a very personal level, in one's own "Hoover Factory," not in a helter-skelter call for a "White Riot."). Or that grating voice obscured a sincerity hard to find in rock today. But that's what the cliche to which he bound himself--"continued anger," as he recently...
...seizing upon the issue as an acid test of East-West allegiances, Reagan has only fabricated a crisis and generated unnecessary strains in the less-than-solid western alliance...