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SURE, our attitudes can obviously be improved. Many more people, for example, should want to be drug counselors. But the same number of investment-banking jobs are out there as before. Certainly, now that sex is not the same sanctioned, repressed activity that it was twenty years ago, romance has just changed its location from public space to private bedroom. If the press and the '60s generation is giving the wrong impression, what can our slandered generation do? Only hope that not everyone believes everything he or she reads...
...allies had repeatedly been thwarted in their attempts to legislate a higher minimum. Just last June, Bush vetoed an increase to $4.55 an hour. He was responding to arguments from business that a higher minimum would force 200,000 workers to lose their jobs. The logjam broke two weeks ago, however, when AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland suggested a compromise plan to the White House...
...cockpit of an American B-1 bomber, and this summer Admiral William Crowe ((the recently retired Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff)) was on a Soviet nuclear submarine. Five years ago, that would have been unthinkable. Are you astonished at what has happened in such a short time...
...quarter century ago, Clapton abandoned the Yardbirds, the group with whom he first made his reputation, because he felt them edging away from the purity of rhythm and blues in order to pursue pop success. The song which eventually gave the Yardbirds their commercial breakthrough and over which Clapton resigned was the Graham Gouldman tune, "For Your Love...
...Before You Accuse Me" is the best song on Journeyman, sounding like something Clapton might have done with John Mayall 20 years ago. With some help from Cray and a real live drummer, Clapton concludes his newest album with this wonderful update of E. McDaniel's 30-year-old blues tune. Clapton's vocals do sound a little weak, and the song was not mixed with any particular technical insight. But "Before You Accuse Me" has lots of raw energy, and the subdued vocals and lack of mixing actually lend the track a feeling of authenticity...