Word: burnout
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...punks have been around so long it would be reasonable to assume they would need a breather. No way. This new record is heady evidence that the band has flourished during a career that began before the Sex Pistols and has survived what seems to be virtually mandatory punk burnout. They are as hot as ever, though, and still laying into those guitar chords like hardhats working rivet guns. They get occasional instrumental help-Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads turns a fine hand to synthesizers on one of the album's best cuts, Chasing the Night-but their songs...
Square restaurant managers and retailers report that they have been forced to reduce their staffs by as much as 40 percent and are suffering "employee burnout" from too many overtime shifts...
...debaters yesterday found themselves arguing such resolutions as "The kid is not my son," "I stink, therefore I am:" "It is the burnout of almost everyone;" and "The meek shall inherit the mirth...
...other hand, Andrew S. Marovitz and Kenneth B. Gordon of Amherst went from "It is the burnout of almost everyone" to argue against nuclear armament...
...different kind of burnout looms Over the Commonwealth of the Democratic Americas in A.D. 2000, as Burgess plays with a well-known science fiction theme. An iron-heavy planet, code-named Lynx, threatens to vaporize the earth in this third and most complete tale. Valentine Brodie, a jittery, lustful, heavy-drinking young "future fiction" writer, is to accompany a space ark populated by an elite, computer-selected group of scientists and thinkers. They have been chosen to carry civilization to the next world. Brodie, like Freud, is fond of cigars, panatellas called Solzhenitsyns. He is also fond...