Word: coal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sustaining that kind of songwriting over such a long string of records must involve far more mental work than the finished products show; it reminds me of Superman's party trick of turning lumps of coal into diamonds. The Dentists' powers aren't dissimilar; they are using the normal musical fuels-four boys, no girls, two guitars, verse/ chorus/ verse/ chorus/ bridge/ verse/ chorus, two or three riffs per song, and one memorable line to provide the title--raw materials more common in the pop music "underground" than coal under the real ground. And their lyrical and emotional raw materials...
...local tourist attraction. Nor does the need stop at his front door. Gilbert must satisfy the sexual desires of a tartly cheerful matron (Mary Steenburgen), even as he is drawn to newcomer Becky (Juliette Lewis), a teenager whose ease and freedom seem like fresh oxygen in the coal mine of Gilbert's life...
...system tainted by gridlock and inefficiency. And he aimed right at Russians' pocketbooks, denouncing the economic reforms that have hiked the price of metro tickets from five kopeks to 30 rubles, pushed middle-income households toward the poverty level and withheld wages from such key constituencies as the coal miners. But like the U.S. billionaire, Zhirinovsky had far more to offer in the way of firebrand bombast than coherent policy. "Zhirinovsky has no program and offers no alternatives," says Marie Mendras, a Russia specialist with the National Foundation of Political Science in Paris. "He simply reflects the mood...
...Gilmore in "The Executioner's Song" and was nominated for another Emmy for his performance in the mini-series "Lonesome Dove." In addition to his movie role in Oliver Stone's "JFK," for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor by the Academy, Jones has starred in "The coal Miner's Daughter," "The Package" and the Harvard-Radcliffe favorite, "Love Story...
...chief cause of the industrial tragedy is a consistent policy of subsidizing losers, usually because of national pride. Europe's 1951 coal and steel treaty prohibits such state aid, yet about $75 billion in government money has been lavished on steel producers since the mid-1970s through waivers and loopholes, while the sector was losing more than 260,000 jobs. Even as France, Germany and Britain were shuttering mills, the heavily subsidized Spanish industry built new plants that boosted national capacity 35%, while Italy hiked its potential...