Word: bustingly
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...have been judged to be as pernicious as they are pleasurable. Now the boom has fallen on the economic boom. Time was when the word connoted something unqualifiedly positive, as in "booming industry" and "boom times." But because a boom all too often leads to inflation and then to bust, Data Resources Inc., an economic consulting firm in Massachusetts, has set up a "DRI Boom Monitor" to alert subscribers when a healthy recovery shows signs of turning into an unsustainable boom...
...thing." But only the chorus lyrics are enunciated clearly as Keith Richard, Billy Preston and the new Stone Ron Wood (though he only plays on two cuts) form a tight backup group to sing out the threat: "Cause if you really think you can push it/ I'm gonna bust your knees with a bullet." Some of the lyrics may be swallowed up, but what you can hear is more than enough to set your imagination running. Keith Richard closes out the song and the album with a satisfying run of ascending and descending guitar...
...into the "white heat of technological revolution" to reverse the country's economic decline. But the industrial revival did not happen, largely because Wilson did not have the vision to attempt any but limited measures that merely continued the postwar "stop-go" cycle of boom, inflation and economic bust. Instead, Wilson's major accomplishment was that he seemed to have persuaded his fellow Britons to recognize at long last that their nation must somehow begin living within its means...
That painful decision, say some who know Margaret, drove the unhappy princess into her marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960. Margaret was bitter following the Townsend bust-up, and seemed intent on getting even by finding a partner whose marital status was suitable but who conspicuously lacked the usual aristocratic Establishment credentials. For this scenario, Tony Armstrong-Jones seemed perfect: well-enough educated (Eton, Cambridge) but more than a little bohemian, a trendy, fast-living commoner who dared to court Margaret by inviting her-so friends said-to a balconied flat he had rented overlooking the Thames docks...
What's in a name? Not much, the historian of art is bound to answer. Cubism was not about cubes, nor Fauvism about wild beasts. When in 1905 an affable critic looked round the Paris Salon d'Automne, which contained an Italianate bust surrounded by the paintings of Henri Matisse and his disciples, he made a wisecrack about "Donatella chez les fauves" (Donatello among the wild beasts), thus giving a short-lived movement a very durable and misleading label. Fauvism was worked out by a small group of artists over a span of three years; it was dead...