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...record, or records (if you want the two singles), keeps the layers and layers of superb, crisp hooks while ditching the Lewis Carroll ideology: perhaps in reaction to the Riot Grrrl thing, Heavenly has written songs about female self-reliance, gender-based intimidation and, yes, date rape. "P.U.N.K. Girl" is about a supercool but rather repressed "girl" (no age given) who, Amelia Fletcher wishes, would act as "punk" as she makes Fletcher feel: "P is for the painful way/You make me feel some days/U is for you turn me on..." "Atta Girl" gives a disco-flavored backbeat to congratulations...
...lengthen response time and leave Clinton trying to do too many things at once. Two weeks ago, early one morning, McLarty had to insist that the President stop signing pictures during a meeting and move away from his desk into another chair to have what he called "a nice, crisp, 10- minute meeting on scheduling." Clinton will finally take a Thanksgiving break at Camp David this week, but only after considerable pulling and tugging by top advisers, who reminded him that Americans distrust a man who is all work and no play...
...joke. It is an alibi. When the Clinton Administration runs into trouble abroad -- debacle in Somalia, humiliation in Haiti, dithering over Bosnia -- it likes to preface its list of extenuations with: Of course, we no longer have the easy divisions of the cold war to make things clear and crisp and simple. Things are so much harder...
...clear and crisp and simple? Curious. During the cold war, especially during its last two decades, liberals claimed that things were not so simple, that only ideologues and dimwits -- Ronald Reagan, for example -- insisted on seeing the world through the prism of the cold...
When you enter the store, you can't help but feel a little disoriented by the dualistic nature of the place--the front of the store is crisp and office-like, accented by granite tiling and wooden panels, while the other two-thirds of the establishment is plush, richly textured, and riddled with hair care products. Thomas said that she is required by law to have two distinct waiting rooms and a boundary between the two "offices...