Word: em
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beat 'em, join 'em. This is college: you're supposed to be drunk and stinky all the time...
...They are very hard-working and play a brand of in-your-face hockey," Tomassoni said. "Especially on the road, the key will be to put' em away early, because if we let the crowd get into it and let them thin they can beat us, we might be in for a long night...
...with the authentic spirit of the late Joy Division. "Conchita," which I think is a plain old love song (though it's real hard to tell), does all the work of a classic Tin Pan Alley composition on only two chords at a time, shifting back and forth between 'em in a way that Versus, if you've heard of Versus, very much wish they could. "Salsa Garden" has nothing to do with salsa, except that the whole song almost drowns under a thick "sauce" of sound effects and Beatlesque backwards drumbeats...
...disturbing truth is that although three decades of lock-'em-up fever have made America the world's No. 1 jailer, there still aren't nearly enough cells to go around. The '80s zeal for harsh drug penalties has pushed the U.S. incarceration rate to 455 per 100,000 citizens and has run up an unprecedented annual tab of $21 billion for the construction of prisons and maintenance of inmates. As the nation's inmate population swells toward 1.4 million, prison officials must release career criminals to make room for first-time drug offenders. The growing public outcry against violent...
...rest of Face the Music is bubble-gum sweet, alternating between mid- tempo make-out sound tracks and swooning ballads whose message is pretty much summed up by the dilemma expressed in Girls: "What would boys be without girls to love? . . . / Can't live with 'em, can't live without girls." That's the first thing boys learn when they grow...