Word: craniums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national parks should redouble their efforts to fight Reagan's policies. With Watt's departure the environment could cease to be a high-profit issue. Certainly, environmental issues should continue to command public attention. But somehow they will look different without the glare off of Jimmie Watt's cranium...
Every question was double-barreled, aimed at my ever-shrinking cranium. If I got past any of the board land mines, I was forced into pinpointing my ignorance more sharply. Oral exams are verbal pole-vaults: keep making stabs till you fall on your face...
...executive suite; the watchtowers are electronic eyes; hero and villain cross swords over a photocopier, wrestle on sleek chairs and desks, almost electrocute each other with a computer's exposed wires. The final blow, be warned, is a vertical slice through the bad guy's cranium. One wonders how many members of the audience will stay around to watch the end of this compact Armageddon-and how many of these will leave with a splitting headache...
Diana won't be coming at Harvard's defense until The Game late in November, but while football coaches tend to take "one game at a time," Joe Restic must already have a corner of his cranium reserved for ways to stop the Eli steamroller...
...hasn't gotten over it: the song is like a river of tears, and Elvis's vocal is the most expressive of his career, choked yet fluent, cynical yet deeply innocent. It's a beautiful, intimate, cards-on-the-table number, with Pete Thomas's snare lightly searing your cranium. Trust contains, however, two clunkers: "Different Finger," another of Elvis's dreary, patronizing, untranscendent country numbers, and "Shot With His Own Gun," a song for your daddy with a tune too feeble to accommodate the tragic sourfulness Elvis pours into it. "Clubland" is diverting but stupid, with a deadly, unexpansive...