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...serious about this thing. This is a contest, with entries and winners and prizes and all. If you still have all those real tough 45s you used to spin every afternoon after school, then you better go get 'em. This isn't Fonzie-Fifties stuff, but Solid Gold Sixties and very early Seventies vinyl; the notes that used to make you park your carcass in front of the idiot box when Shindig came...
...more important cause of the cost explosion seems to be an atmosphere surrounding the project, a "take 'em for what they got" attitude towards the public that prevails in company and union actions. A "cost-plus" philosophy governs the oil companies' buying policies and labor expenditure decisions--companies are assured that cost-overruns will not decrease their profits. "Cost-plus" is in one sense an inducement essential to getting companies to invest large amounts of capital in a high risk situation, but from another perspective, it removes the pressure on companies that would ordinarily cause them to keep...
...Please Don't Bury Me" gives a classic country cliche a new twist. Woke up. Put on my slippers. Went into the kitchen. And died. Then Prine howls "please don't bury me in that cold, cold ground/No I'd druther have'em cut me up and pass me all around." The other songs are very nearly all just as inspired. There are paeans to rural drug use--"Illicit Smile": Please don't arrest me sir, I'm smiling because I feel no pain, not because I killed somebody--like one of you Babbitts. Probably has no meaning...
...Great Society," he helped launch many of the programs he will soon be trying to run. As a special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, he wrote so many memos for L.B.J.'s "night reading" that the President once testily asked another aide whether "y'all brought 'em up here by pack mule...
Some compassion for Captain Lock 'Em Up, James Q. Wilson...