Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the photography in Townships doesn't contradict my picture. There are eleven photographs of people who look over retirement age; kids, who fit into my hazy, Hollywood-wrought vision; plain white Indiana farm houses and general stores with old "Drink Coca-Cola" signs. The pictures show 35-cent vanilla ice cream, and movie seats that cost one dollar--at all times. All the photographs are in black and white...
Harkin pulls out a newspaper clipping and putson his glasses. "At a grocers' convention,President Bush was amazed by the bar-code readersat the checkout counters. These readers have beenin use for over eleven years." Laughter. "Whatelse has Bush missed during his years inWashington? The Detroit Free Press said he lookedlike a `preppie Rip Van Winkle...
...holds up mid-afternoon traffic on Elm Street for fifteen minutes, and a woman leans out the window of her Chevy to ask what is going on. The Bush motorcade appears in the distance, approaches, passes by at twenty miles an hour. Eleven police cars with flashing lights, then the six press vans, the Secret Service, the Buicks full of aides, the ambulance, finally the President's limo and then more police...
...gentle vocal accompaniment that sets the mood for the rest of the album. Indeed, the rest of Wings of Joy could be considered merely a continuation of the opening piece, with no really noticeable variation in style or substance from song to song. The album is comprised of eleven pieces, all virtually instrumentals, all three to four minutes in length and all conveying the same vaguely disturbing mood with the same absurdly unintelligible lyrics...
...doesn't get much less fervent than that. We prayed twice a year, around the Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys. They'd make me pray, because I was little and remembered stuff from Sunday School, then we'd chow `til the meal was done. And that was it for eleven months. My parents loved God, but the Christmas tree was about as public as they...