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...long, though before be regrets his decision. The radio begins to lade and Freeman fiddles with the broken knobs on the dashboard. I always forget that 30 has the bum radio, he says. The radio is an important part of the job. The steady beat of WBOS or WBCN relieves the tedium and makes driving almost automatic. When I'm driving in heavy traffic I listen to classical music because it get's really tense behind the wheel." Freeman says I'm from California where the people are a lot more laid back. When you drive around here at rush...
...Council of Trade Unions (A.C.T.U.) from 1970 to 1980. Even before Hawke was elected to Parliament, a 1979 poll revealed him as Australia's favorite choice for Prime Minister. When at last he did join Parliament two years ago, he was, he said, determined not to "warm my bum on a back bench." Hawke's subsequent lackluster performance has cast some doubts on his ability to govern. But after Labor suffered a demoralizing defeat in a by-election last December, the party decided to jettison Bill Hayden, 50, its colorless longtime leader, and gamble on Hawke...
Lines like "Your life doesn't mean shit/Does that bum you out?/I won't get you high/I won't make you come" resist sexism by not mentioning women or men. The sons become diatribes against hedonism from the hedonist's point of view. They are vivid for the same reason that hardcore, despite criticism, remains alive--what else is there...
Senior Captain Jackie Corrigan lost to Princeton's number two by two points in the fifth game and number four Lili Pew fell 3-2 after taking her first two games. Senior Captain Lisa Harrison defaulted with a 1-0 lead at number three, falling victim to a bum knee Betsy Howe lasted five games in the sixth position before losing...
...like a corpse in a reflecting pool. I Love L.A., which opens the record, is a mock-heroic epic of the sun-kissed glories of Southern California, mixing conventional imagery of Beach Boys serenades and fast rides in convertibles with darker asides about "a big nasty redhead" and a bum "down on his knees." Like the other keynote songs on the record-Christmas in Capetown, Miami-I Love L.A. turns the topography of tourist cliché into a nightmare landscape on which the sun never sets...