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...song rolls along with the meter running and the twin refrain: "Get up, get out, get into something new" and "Ooooooh, and it's got me moving." In short, it's the Stones finest statement yet of urban rootlessness and mutability, a world where nothing counts unless it's brand-new and fast-moving, a gaseous world, a great nebula, where nothing is complete or permanent except New York's concrete garbage cans, where even "Dance" is only "Part...
Thompson also shot a creditable round considering the poor playing conditions. Performing with a brand-new set of clubs, the senior played a respectable round until the 18th, when only a superb shot out of swampy ground rescued him from disaster...
...tanks to counter the threat of the 25,000 T-72s and tens of thousands of other armored vehicles the Soviets will have by that year. But the Pentagon's goals are at the mercy of congressional cutbacks and increased production costs. Meanwhile, the Soviets are developing a brand-new tank, the T-80, that is meant to surpass the XM1. According to U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army Percy Pierre, a successor to the T-80 is probably already "on the drawing boards of one of the Soviet tank plants, where thousands of engineers spend their days doing...
...letters make fine reading, but I was particularly struck by your complaint (letter 2, page 27) of a persistent heavy feeling in the chest that can only be relieved by sighing. Ralph, this is a clue. You are not just in love, you are limerent. This is a brand-new word made up by a University of Bridgeport psychologist, Dorothy Tennov, in her new book on romance, Love and Limerence. If you haven't guessed it already, limerence is the ultimate, near obsessional form of romantic love...
Clearly, the U.S. is now buffeted by a public atmosphere that has grown chronically and pervasively cautionary. Apprehensive outcries wail forth from broadcasts, newspapers, magazines, posters, labels, environmental journals, medical tracts, Government reports, even books. One of the books is a brand-new broadside by Dr. Charles T. McGee, a clinical ecologist of Alamo, Calif., who is quoted above. His 220-page polemic issues a general alarm about multifarious dangers that lurk in every nook and cranny of contemporary civilization. Even fluorescent lighting, he says, may, in some weird way, weaken the muscles. The book, billed as a "crash course...