Word: anthemic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JACKSON BROWNE: Lives in the Balance (Asylum). Wherein the singer-songwriter does a little housecleaning in his many roomed conscience. The first song, For America, is a deliberate, even self-mocking evocation of a signature Browne anthem, For Everyman, just as the last cut, Black and White, is at once a warning and a sign toward a new direction. "Time running out time running out/ For the fool still asking what his life is about," he sings, and since no one is better at lyrical rock introspection, it is plain that Browne has set himself a new course. This album...
...piece Cornell band--complete with six, count them, six tubas--was pelting out its precision rendition of our nation's anthem...
Having established themselves as utterly clueless, this oddball crew proceeds to deliver a rousing number, in which they equate the whole operation with a religious football game. ("We're special-teamin' for the Lord...") Their energetic pep-rally-cum-war-anthem is the production's first real show-stopper...
When Oscar says "All women are whores," in his drunken stupor, Wertmuller would have the audience believe that this is the comic entirety of the male anthem. Actually, Wertmuller is in error. The complete macho male anthem is that all women are whores, lesbians, or frigid. By merely introducing lesbianism or bisexuality in the women characters, this pretentious film does nothing to change men's stereotypical views of female sexuality it merely confirms one aspect of a nasty but common world view. To effectively make a feminist statement, one would have to introduce issues beyond the mundane comic plane...
John Logsdon, George Washington University's space policy expert, has studied the program and its relationship to the American people. After last week's disaster, he noted that in many sports arenas, when they play the national anthem, among the images flashed on the big screens is that of the shuttle. "It's one of our most common national symbols now," he said. "Right after the bald eagle." Along with its predecessors, stretching back to the first Redstone rockets, it remains even now a symbol of America's common bond as a nation, in times of both triumph and tragedy...