Word: axing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AMERICAN BAR where they play real rock'n' roll, where the guitarist takes his axe to his groin, wringing out the sound that bends and twists his whole body, jitters his knees and pumps all the life up through his head where it spatters out to the crowd in beads of sweat. The sweat that salts the beers and the crowd sucks in every guitar lick. Yes, yes, yes, they want more. They are jumping and rocking their seats, pounding the table and singing out of key, and they don't want to do anything in the world but listen...
...Solzhenitsyn, waving a flag of traditional Christian values over the atheist Soviet state. His dissatisfaction with Soviet life comes across less as an ideological jihad than as truculent skirmishing. In some ways, it's more effective for just that reason--we know Voinovich has neither icon to worship nor axe to grind...
...academic axe that claimed Buckley and Cuccia, and the untimely injuries that have removed St. John and Buchanan (one in each of the last two games) have left Mike Smerczynski on top of the heap--at least for the moment...
...balancing the Faculty's budget, are not the only money-saving measures introduced in the past few years. Rosovsky has insisted that no department has suffered a reduction in size, but for several years before 1977 the rate of hiring new senior professors slowed down--no appointments got the axe, but some were delayed. Recent budgets have also skimped on some building maintenance...
...where many critics say Wagner's inspiration failed him--Sellars falters too. Splicing in whole minutes of Kurt Weill music to back up the leather-jacketed, bar-stool Gibichungs may be a justified comment on their theatrical value in Wagner's original scheme. It also, however, shatters with an axe-stroke of cynicism the mood of benign humor that prevails until them. The musical effect is appalling, the lapse in taste alarming...