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...with instantly memorable hooks. Brevity used to be the soul of rock; one of these songs runs just 2 min. 45 sec., and most of the others are longer only because they repeat their choruses exactly as many times as you want to hear them. Best of all, no drum solos; the world's most famous percussionist was always a modest gent. Here he jollies things along with his tentative voice and 4/4 pummeling...
...Little Communicator is at it again. As Republican spin doctors and political handlers scurry about the landscape trying to use "family values" to shore up President Bush's eroding base among conservatives and divert attention from peskier concerns such as the deficit, the Vice President must beat the populist drum on cultural and moral matters. To a standing ovation from the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis last week, Quayle declared that the hoots of nationwide amusement at his Murphy Brown efforts were a "badge of honor." A "cultural elite," cynical and relativistic, the same folk Spiro Agnew used...
David H. Mandel gave brief glimpses of hisundergraduate life in the Ivy Oration, with someassistance from a drum roll...
...bill for his political contributions, the White House, according to a memo, was "modestly helpful" to Perot in his efforts to reach a settlement with the agency. The next year, he spent $1 million on newspaper ads and a 30-minute TV program called United We Stand to drum up support for Nixon's Vietnam policy. According to documents in the Nixon archives, some of Perot's access came on a promise to spend $50 million to get the President favorable coverage by buying a newspaper and a television network. (John Ehrlichman took the offer seriously enough to estimate...
...went into the basement and saw a 2000-gallon water drum that Jim had made out of copper. Water heats in the solar panels up on the roof, and flows down to this thermal bank. An industrial computer listens to thermometers throughout the house and controls a pump which sends hot water to cool places. The water flows through a rubber tube under the strips of metal that Jim called "radiant." The water warms the radiant, and the radiant warms the room...