Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Palmer tells us that the song Satisfaction "works as a classic rock single," but on another level "asserts that tensions and frustrations are inherent in a capitalist society with consumerist values." He concludes...
...added 900 workers over the past five years. "We benefited from the lack of imagination of some of the other old shoe companies around here," says Herman Swartz, president of the family-owned concern. Fully one-quarter of Timberland's sales have come from exports since its classic penny loafers became a hit in Europe...
There was less uncertainty about the meaning of the criminal-law rulings no less controversy about the direction of the court. The first of the two decisions last week re played a classic case in legal annals...
...classic American style of moviemaking, unselfconscious and objective: he trusts the tale, not the teller. And he trusts his actors as well. As Geoffrey, Albert Finney staggers toward his doom on feet unsteadied not so much by booze as by the weight of the cross he bears, a compound of tormented memory and suffering intelligence. There is in his presence a nobility that elicits compassion along with admiration for the actor's work. Jacqueine Bisset and Anthony Andrews tread similarly delicate lines as Yvonne and Hugh, trying to cling to their dreams despite the rude, awakening noises of Geoffrey...
...background, his worry as shaky news-service jobs wash out from under him. His account of trying to get CBS to pay attention to the imminent annexation of Austria, while a New York executive insisted that he set up a series of children's choir broadcasts, is a classic tale of the man in the field confounded by home-office buffoonery...