Word: darning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When General Motors' Saturn plant was opened amid the cornfields of Spring Hill, Tenn., in 1990, it was billed as a kind of corporate nirvana where a folksy labor force and enlightened managers would happily work to produce some of the best darn American cars on the road. The plant represented a unified front against growing Japanese imports and offered the broader prospect of peace between GM and the United Auto Workers...
...have unlocked Lloyd Webber's long-dormant rock tendencies. To be sure, Whistle has its share of elevator-music ballads (though you can pipe No Matter What into my elevator anytime), and the upbeat kids' number When Children Rule the World is easy to make fun of (yet still darn catchy). But the Steinmanesque angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over-the-top lyrics like "If all that died again would grow.../ These are the loneliest words I know," have inspired fresh passion and urgency (and a good beat) in Lloyd...
After watching her get 27 inoculations for a slew of strange diseases and realizing that it's darn hard to get a good cup of java in the rainforest (even if you're in Java), I decided to spend my summer in the marshy, bug-infested, urban jungle of Washington...
...Bank robbing is a barrel of laughs, working for the Feds is better than taking out a personal ad, and, quick, inconvenient jail terms aside, only the really bad guys get punished. It's not fair for something this ideal, this utopian, this completely far-fetched to be so darn good. The illogical plot is utterly captivating from beginning to end, and the performances are superb. Out of Sight is really, well, out of sight...
...N.R.A.'s. Trigger locks? "A ludicrous invention. If you can't put it on a weapon without taking the bullets out, why put it on?" A five-day waiting period? "It's hard for me to accept that a guy says, 'I'm going to kill that s.o.b., but, darn, I have this five-day waiting period.' He probably still wants to kill him after five days." Ban Saturday-night specials? "The black and Hispanic women who clean office buildings until 3 a.m. and then walk home--of course, they want a handgun in their purse." Limit purchases...