Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...musical wanderings, then set them -- and this is the big step -- parallel to a deeper, even more personal striving. The album's first cut, an atomic remake of the Beatles' Helter Skelter, sets the trajectory as if it were a tour itinerary, an emotional playground journey from the bottom to the top of a slide "Where I stop and I turn/ And I go for a ride/ Till I get to the bottom/ And I see you again." Many of the album's 17 songs deal with images of exile and uneasy spiritual responsibility, most strikingly in the Dylan collaboration...
Even though Yale (1-3-2 Ivy) will finish near the bottom of the Ivy pack, the Elis will be no simple challenge for the Crimson. Yale was the only league team to make the national rankings during the season, having defeated formidable non-league foes Connecticut and Seton Hall. Harvard had been listed first in the pre-season predictions...
Also seen at Bright: "The Big Al Memorial Sign"--complete with a tiny "sieve" at the bottom of the sign...
Faculty members who led the cry for reform are concerned that, after a few dismal seasons, Dallas football nuts may once again slip payoffs to players. "The bottom-line question," asks law-school acting dean Paul Rogers, "is, Can we control the boosters?" Certainly everyone wants the reforms to work. The booster-club president, Bill Hill, insists that "alumni understand the situation now. We're going to be a model of integrity." Gregg adds, "A school can't live without the alumni." Old grads are after him, wanting to lend a hand. "Support us, come to our games," he shoots...
...spontaneous than the last, as the candidates -- some eagerly and others grudgingly -- submit to the discipline of their handlers. The growing sophistication of such research techniques as focus groups and audience meters enhances the underlying cynicism of modern politics. As on Wall Street, success is measured solely by the bottom line -- never mind such idealistic notions as conducting a dialogue with the electorate...