Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's Why I'm Here is no earth shaker, but it's pure James. The album commences with the title song, in which, after a brief guitar solo, Taylor sings: "Person to person and man to man, I'm back in touch with a long, lost friend." Having deprived his fans of new material for nearly five years, he couldn't have summed up their feelings more accurately...
...burning issue that prompted the council to wrestle with its role for the umpteenth time in its brief history was a letter to undergraduates, on council stationary, endorsing the Endowment for Divestiture...
...boyfriends like a jealous lover. In the '70s other, wider conflicts intervened. After Israel's near catastrophe in the October War of 1973, the general was maligned by some of his own countrymen as "the architect of military cemeteries." His 35-year marriage dissolved, he remarried, enjoyed a brief period of rehabilitation and happiness, but then, after great pain, succumbed to cancer in 1981. His coldly worded will left almost everything to his second wife. In death, Yael bitterly remarks, "he shrank to a size I refused to accept." Perhaps. But this tense, embittered account has taken several more cubits...
...been invited, do not despair. Neither have some 231,964,159 other Americans, give or take a dozen or so. Only a select seraphim of the moneyed and powerful will meet Charles and Diana when they make their three-day visit this weekend to Washington and then, after a brief frenzy of sight-seeing, partygoing and media deluge, hop down to Palm Beach for a round of polo and another party. But after all, what are you missing? Up close, Charles is a polite, diffident, self-conscious fellow, a man who, at 36, after years as a junior executive...
...brief essays in On Signs are live experiments in language that speak to the state of the art of criticism and test the limits of applying the reading process to various aspects of cultural behavior...