Word: albatrosses
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Meanwhile, England, while also engendering experimental work, has retained an affection for good power-pop music. Singles remain a hot item t' ere today, while in the U.S. they're an albatross around the companies' necks. So in England, after John Lennon's death. "Imagine" made its way back to the top ten, an unheard-of event in America; and in England, a group can have many popular singles out without having to put out a whole album...
...former President proposed a change of his own last week. While visiting Princeton University, he told students that the President should serve a single six-year term in order to pursue his policies without being accused of playing politics. Ever a loner, Carter also called the Democratic Party an "albatross around my neck" during his re-election campaign...
...Republican landslide was less a rejection of liberalism than a repudiation of Carter," Ron Brown, a top aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government said earlier this week. "Jimmy Carter was the albatross for the Democrats this year...
When he was foaled at Hanover Shoe Farms in Pennsylvania in the spring of 1977, it seemed unlikely that the son of Albatross, one of the first megabucks harness sires, would end up in a broken home. Galbraith, 43, and the septuagenarian Berger had been informal partners for nearly a quarter of a century. When he was 19, Galbraith came as an apprentice to the woman's stables in Grand Island, N.Y., and over the years trained many of her top pacers. After Berger moved her breeding operation to Hanover Shoe Farms, she continued to use Galbraith...
...week, the President looked more like a political Charles Atlas, transformed by foreign crises from a 97-lb. weakling into a muscleman whose wishes had to be respected. Said House Democratic Floor Leader Jim Wright of Texas, using a different metaphor: "Members who 60 days ago considered Carter an albatross around their necks now consider him a life jacket...