Word: arse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Not since the first hammer dropped to the highest bidder have sales of valuables commanded such audiences, such publicity, such prices. While anything that is relatively rare is sure to fetch a pretty penny at auction these days, things of beauty and lasting worth-"objects of virtue" to the trade...
Five hundred years later, the press is still in the classics business; Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Book I, for example, is a recent offering. But the Oxford imprint now spans all of human knowledge, from the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary (floccinaucinihilipilification, the act of estimating as...
Sky High is one of those screaming, hard-rocking incitements to mayhem, noise and more noise. "Let's Fly!" is the message and the song is certainly flying high among the most-played AM variety of songs. The beat keeps right on thumpety-thumping beneath whining guitars--hardly intellectual rock...
However there is more to ARS than just good vibrations. Their melodies tend to the simple, with instrumental arrangements spinning out the songs, overlaying a fairly repetitive tune with enough fancy solo guitar picking or harmonies to keep you interested.
ARS sins and sings about it then sins again and always they seem to be in a Stones-type world, one described in Dog Days their 1975 album: where the singer goes "to sleep with an angel" and wakes up with a devil in his bed. Drinking in a "loud...