Word: anthemic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greet the dignitaries. One young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair stood at attention as each one's national anthem was played and howitzers blasted an ear-splitting salute...
...Clash, and the production hand of Mick Jones has added the 'Clash sound' to Hunter's--laser gun synthesizers, up-front guitars with a wall of various whatevers always in the bacgrould. The results are mixed. Somethines Jones pulls up an average song, like the horn-sectioned ditty-turned-anthem "I Need Your Love" or the off-beat, off-key "Lisa Likes Rock and Roll". Other times, it causes weak songs to show up even worse, like the ostentatious "Leave Me Alone," which sounds like Donna Summer having lost her lyric sheet, or the let's-play-with-synthesizers "Noises...
...resembles Lena Horne draped across a window singing Stormy Weather and paying tribute to a special era in Black history. Lena Horne is a lovely monument, but her affected pain was sometimes unconvincing, her song a false anthem to Black achievement. Unfortunately, Maya Angelou inherited Hollywood's trick vision. Her prose gets as misty as the camera did with Bill Bojangle's memories. Not much heart shows through in this book, despite all the tears
...Form follows function" has been the anthem of much 20th century architecture and design, but it will be the function of the Design section to follow form-to trace its myriad varieties and analyze its influence on the way we live, work and play. The section will interpret, in the widest possible sense, the patterns and shapes of our world. Design, noted the celebrated architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, includes everything from teacups to city planning. Accordingly, says Senior Editor William Ewald, who will edit the new section, "Design will deal with, say, the silhouette of a new telephone...
...shouted down when he tried to speak, and later discovered that the air had been let out of the tires of his car. At San José he did not even bother with the customary oration. He quickly paraphrased the first verse of the country's national anthem ("Costa Ricans, remember that beneath the limpid blue of your skies, there will always be work and peace") and just as quickly sat down...