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...there’s a complaint to be lodged against Pinback, it’s that the songs all sound more or less the same. Nearly every song was dominated by the lead guitar and bass (the bass much higher in the mix than usual for rock bands); vocals are buried beneath each song’s few riffs to the point of unintelligibility; no song strayed far from its studio version. None of this is particularly bad in itself, but it can get tiring after 90 minutes...
...said that the union has not succeeded in scheduling a hearing for his complaint, but that his lawsuit would be heard in court...
Philip Roth, however, is one of the literary masters most attentive to the body. He has written lovingly about its lusts (Portnoy's Complaint), its decrepitude (The Dying Animal) and the intersection of the two (a ribald graveside scene in Sabbath's Theater). In his slim, stark novel Everyman (Houghton Mifflin; 182 pages), about the life and (mostly) death of an unnamed adman, Roth plays the body's trump card: someday it will die and take the mind with...
This controversy has its origins in 1978’s landmark Supreme Court case FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. A listener to Pacifica’s New York City station filed a complaint after George Carlin’s infamous “Filthy Words” bit—in which the legendary stand-up comic and counter-culture icon gleefully lists and graphically annotates the anatomical, excretory, and reproductive colloquialisms deemed unfit for broadcast media...
...rendition of “American Pie.” “Excuse me,” said the officer, straining to be heard over the chorus of Don McLean’s magnum opus. “Excuse me. We’ve also had a noise complaint.” By now there were three HUPD officers on the scene. Recognizing that he had a captive audience, Rennell paused to consider the statement before delivering his deadpan reply: “Do you guys have any good ghost stories...