Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Buck Naked, which ends the record with a stirring plea for a return to innocence, that sums up the cathartic quality of David Byrne. Byrne's head and heart seem to collaborate perfectly as he sings, "Running naked like the day I was born/ We're all naked in the land where I come from/ I'm a long long way from New York City now/ We're all naked if you turn us inside out." Combining giddiness with gravity, David Byrne manages to make angst...
...tickets and prices comes at a time when fans are already fed up with the scalping that can drive up prices for the most desirable tickets to several times their face value as they are resold, often more than once, by middlemen. These operators are a mix of quick-buck artists at street level, high-priced attorneys who speculate in tickets for profits, corporate executives trading favors, music-industry insiders and Mafiosi who control key blocks of tickets and take a cut of the inflated price. While Pearl Jam is pointing the finger at Ticketmaster's relatively modest service fees...
They said it was a life of glamour, but it was really a life of splendor. I want to say, Listen, kid, buck up, don't be blue -- the thing about this woman and her life is that she was a patriot, who all by herself one terrible weekend lifted and braced the heart of a nation...
...frustrations with the class that wassupposed to prepare us for teaching," Edward E.Sorola '94 says. "I called the school and the[UTEP] office. They just kept passing the buck...
...dean essentially has two choices. Knowlescan decide to leave Linguistics a department andsimply use the report for information purposes--orhe can buck the undergraduates and change thedepartment into a committee...