Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least a half dozen times before even beginning to zero in on the lyrics--they whizz by so quickly. "Mirror in the Bathroom" eloquently mocks self-possession, while the protagonist in "Click Click" is like Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. Suck on this: "Open your mouth/Slide the barrel in/If you don't like it/Just don't do it again." Great poetry! This fascination with power also runs through such songs as "Hands Off ... She's Mine" and "Big Shot," which throws darts at our leaders and points up our own passivity...
...federal fiscal restraint has become attractive even to voters in Washington. As a result, Magnuson's pork-barrel record is no longer the asset that it was in past campaigns. Says his moderate Republican opponent, State Attorney General Slade Gorton: "I'm not saying Maggie hasn't done good for this state. He has. I'm saying he has now become part of the problem of ravaging inflation, and that I'm part of the solution...
...uncannily echoed his mother's film. According to Judy Vasquez, 21, who shared a house with him near the University of Southern California campus, Meeker was chatting with her about his girlfriend, Linda Jason, 21, of Fresno. He casually plucked from the wall over his bed a short-barreled .410 gauge shotgun. Sitting with legs folded in the lotus position, Meeker rested the butt of the gun on his ankles, pointed the barrel at his face and began loading and unloading a shell...
...monetarists stick to their guns, largely because they have only one barrel that works. Theirs is a Randolph Scott world of black and white, profit and loss, widgets and blips. Frost said the Thatcher government has not gone nearly far enough in cutting spending, tightening money supply, and policing the trade unions. Although some portions of British Aerospace and the Post Office have been turned over to private industry, not enough other industries have gone back to the farm. British Leyland and British Steel--the latter losing over $1 million a day--still devour large chunks of British taxpayers' pounds...
...Iraq could cause a rise in world oil prices of 50% above its original projections by the end of 1981. Since petroleum prices are extremely sensitive to any long-term reduction in world oil supplies, a shortfall in Iranian and Iraqi crude could hike the contract cost of a barrel of oil from its current $32 to about...