Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stand as one of the decade's most original film scores. But the spike in his lyrics can be easy to miss: it is hidden neatly between a rich melody and a smooth delivery that owes as much to cabaret as to the Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park. Lately, too, his songs have grown rather more introspective and relaxed, concentrating on private dilemmas and domestic relations. A just released album called Lucky Day opens with a modified disco tune that flirts with frivolity. But the record closes out on a sardonic anthem in the old style, England...
...earring in one nostril and a red gem in the other, or a classical guitarist in top hat, tails and tennis shoes? Right this way. String quartets, punk rockers, brass quintets, bagpipers, country crooners, dixieland stompers, ad hoc duos of every string, woodwind and percussive persuasion? Just around the corner...
...expansion of judicial authority in the U.S. and the delays, anachronisms and inefficiencies that plague the nation's courts, TIME correspondents interviewed dozens of lawyers and judges across the country, including the studiously reclusive Chief Justice himself. Reports Washington Correspondent Doug Brew: "Chatting with Burger in a quiet corner of his office while he attentively pours coffee from a silver pot reveals an often overlooked human side of the man. He says he is astonished that there have not been more heart attacks among overworked judges, and his own tired, red-lidded eyes underscore the burdens of Justices...
...older ones, perceive their role. By training and tradition they are judges, not administrators or managers. That helps to explain why modern technology and management techniques have been almost totally ignored by the courts. "In a supermarket age we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker barrel corner grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900," said Burger in 1970. He spoke from experience. When he came on the court in 1969, he asked to have some papers duplicated. The clerk had to explain to him that the Supreme Court Justices had no copying machine. Burger...
Total strangers wandered through the dorm, madly introducing themselves, in search of instant friends. The nauseatingly sweet smell of incense (burned to cover the odor of dope) and the stench of old beer permeated the dorm. Music blared from every corner of the Yard, while huge groups of drunken men huddled and leered at women going from party to party. I got asked the big four questions--name, school, career plans, SAT scores--so often I could recite them in seconds (although I refused, as a matter of principle, to talk scores). After one night of parties...