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...Rock critics dislike disco because it is essentially sensual or affective music completely dissociated from the cerebral cortex; it is antiintellectual, whereas rock and roll, and particularly New Wave, is intellectual, or at least can be intellectualized about, which is exactly the business of a rock critic. In the crudest sense, you can fuck to disco and you can't fuck to rock and roll. For that, at least, it deserves tolerance...
Perhaps the crudest psychological pressure was the deliberate isolation of the Americans both from one another and from the outside world. They were not allowed to talk to one another, and in some cases were tied to chairs facing the wall so that they were denied even the sight of anyone else. This form of mental torture brought a sharp protest from visiting Papal Representative Monsignor Annibale Bugnini. To determine any possible psychological damage, the hostages were given psychological examinations on their arrival in Germany...
...archipelago became reality in Western minds only through the frenzied memory and meticulous detail of Solzhenitsyn. Reports of Hitler's death camps were repeatedly denied until photographers were able to fix forever in the mind the piles of corpses at Auschwitz and Dachau. Cambodia may have endured the crudest slaughter of a people since Hitler's time, but the evidence had to be pieced together from the individual accounts of fleeing Cambodians. The events they describe overlap, so that estimates of the dead vary widely and thus lack credibility. Without the witness of photographs in this...
...inequitable, because it produces illusory gains in incomes, profits and home values that are taxed as heavily as if they were real. But there is wide disagreement on how taxes should be cut. How much can taxes be reduced without deepening the budget deficit and thus making inflation, the crudest tax, even worse? Which cuts can best promote investment? Can they be granted without giving an unfair break to the affluent...
Kerr said Stagger's handling of the pre-emption vote was "one of the crudest, dumbest charades I have ever seen...