Word: bouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is interesting stuff for those with rock'n roll aspiration, but I fear for its universal appeal. Scrawled in the liner notes is a boxed phrase: "NOTHIN TO SING BOUT." In a recent interview in Raygun Malkmus addressed this problem, admitting that when he recorded this album he didn't have anything "poetic and beautiful to say, and I wasn't having girl-friend problems." He just didn't have the inspiration, I guess; the best moments are those that reveal a vague angst, best summed up in the melancholy chorus of "Range Life": "If I could settle down...
...reason to think recently bout one of our all-time favorite news stories, which ran in the LA. Times sometime last year. The story was about a protest at the White House for disclosure of information about alleged extraterrestrial visits to earth. The protestors' chants included: "UFO! UFO! The people have the right to know!" and "Stop the cosmic Watergate! Stop the cosmic Watergate...
...never would have expected what followed. After two and a half years of now playing my saxophone after a bout with lockjaw (don't ask), I let it all hang out (so to speak). I played shapes, colors, impulses. I closed my eyes and imagined myself narrating--no, animating--a "Sick and Twisted" flick with each explosion of sound. At times I wasn't sure if I was playing or if I was just along for the ride. My fingers flew up and down the length of the horn; my lips were tense and taut at one turn and lovingly...
...right, so our generation's problems and poor prospects have brought about this bout of nostalgia. Yet instead of taking the logical next step, we have recoiled from...
Some of the damage, typically, was self-inflicted; Clinton suffered another attack of premature capitulation. (He had a bad bout of it last year during the budget fight, junking his proposed BTU tax at the first sign of protest and backing off grazing-fee increases when Western Senators threatened to stampede.) The latest relapse hit, not coincidentally, when the National Governors' Association met in Washington last weekend. Clinton considers himself a lifetime member of the N.G.A. and sometimes forgets that Governors are not as important to him now, compared with members of Congress. In White House meetings, Clinton stunned allies...