Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sadly, there really is none, except for rock 'n rollers to remove all pretensions from themselves and their music right from the start. I would never advocate depoliticizing rock 'n roll or diffusing its rebel yell, but only when it expresses honest emotion and reminds us of the reason the artists got into making music in the first place. At the same time, no one ought to be trapped in a past that no longer relates to their very cushy present--Bruce should once and for all quit with the blue--collar crap-but it seems that when sincerity...
...fans, who, Bills general manager Bill Polian says, "identify more closely with their gridiron heroes than any other fans, except those in Green Bay," left their seats. Tens of thousands of them invaded the rain-soaked field to chant, dance and rip down the goalposts. They paraded the uprights around the field and out into the parking lots. They even deposited a chunk of one outside the private box of Bills owner Ralph C. Wilson, a Detroit businessman whom they once booed. "We'll build new goalposts," said Wilson happily, "and they can tear those down...
...Except for its scale, the proposed RJR breakup was like many of the fruitless paper-shuffling deals that have proliferated in the past decade. The management group is planning to take apart a merger, between RJR and Nabisco, that they hailed only three years ago as a brilliant strategic move. "What is being done threatens the very basis of our capitalist system," said John Creedon, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance company, which is suing RJR because the potential buyout has undermined the value of all bonds that the food and tobacco company sold before the announcement. Not everyone was alarmed...
...came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together for the first time as a group with the help of Rachel Rossow, who works for the state's department of children and youth services in the oxymoronic capacity of consultant and saint. Except at this monthly meeting, in one of their homes, they don't talk about what they do. They use pseudonyms and avoid the word AIDS, especially around the children. They don't want neighbors shouting epithets at them. Some of them have not told their families because they want...
...families tend not to think about these possibilities, except at night, in bed. They seek comfort in aphorisms: "Does it make sense to avoid loving someone now because you might lose him later on? Do you stop going to the beach because summer's going to end?" They try to focus on what they have now: "He's a joy. It's wonderful having him here. This is going to be the best Christmas...