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...saying “gonna do it…O.K. now…the prime time of your life.” For the last two-and-a-half minutes (more than half the track) it just devolves into an unexciting drone. Several of the songs on the album display this kind of depressing progression, opening with a good beat and repeating it for four or five minutes without significant change...
...displays that touch Kawamoto most deeply are those of a middle-school uniform, much like his own, the jacket torn with one sleeve missing; and of wax models of victims walking as if stunned or asleep, their arms held out in front of them. Their skin hangs loose on their bones, like ill-fitting clothing. Their real clothes are rags. In the display case they stand blank-eyed against a backdrop of a wasteland of ashes and a fire-streaked sky. "It is the way people really looked," Kawamoto says. "They did not seem to walk voluntarily; they appeared...
...physical vigor is the least part of the morning's display. A visitor is struck more by his determined spirit. Ronald Reagan is marching on. Cancer has been found and excised, and he believes in mind and heart that he has been cleansed of the disease. There is no crack in the armor. At no time in 34 minutes of conversation does a shadow cross his eyes. The words mortality and cancer come quietly and without theatrics...
...sessions have done little to halt the tumble of oil prices on world markets. Constantine Fliakos, chief international oil analyst with Merrill Lynch in New York, said OPEC's "pretense to try to reassert control over the oil market is a joke." The Geneva meeting, he said, "is a display of impotence...
...News section remains the untamed beast. From the start, USA Today editors decided to forgo the dutiful, gray Page One display of a traditional newspaper. "That was the easy part," recalls John Quinn, 59, the paper's editor. "But what should we put on instead? That's tough." The ideal mix, in Quinn's opinion, is a banner story across the top that grabs the reader's attention (SUPER HORSE JOHN HENRY PUT TO PASTURE headlined one issue last week). Another story tries to get a jump on the day's events (CHINA'S LI, REAGAN TALK PACTS TODAY...