Word: braveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judging from her latest album Brave and Crazy, Melissa Etheridge has a love life you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy...
...Brave and Crazy...
Etheridge, who opened for Little Feat's summer tour, rocked crowds into a frenzy (a nearly impossible task for an opening band) with the energy and emotion in songs from her first album like "Occasionally" and "Like the Way I Do." Brave and Crazy, while it treads most of the same musical ground as Melissa Etheridge, possesses the same vibrant vocals as the first album...
...cannot bear very much reality. In this richly detailed historical study of American and British behavior during World War II, Fussell argues that the horror was of such magnitude that participants -- civilians as much as soldiers -- survived it only by reliance on euphemism and illusions: our lads were all brave heroes, for example, while theirs were sadistic thugs. Fussell has a sharp eye for the bawdry and the Catch-22 absurdities of combat. But hard to find in his barrages of withering contempt is much sense that this war, for all the bumbling incompetence of its captains, nonetheless...
...Minister Margaret Thatcher had "visited occupied Ireland with a message of war when we want peace. Now we in turn have visited the Royal Marines in Kent." Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister had toured Northern Ireland and praised the Ulster Defense Regiment, calling it a "very, very, very brave group of men." The U.D.R. has been accused of leaking names of I.R.A. suspects to Protestant assassins...