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...retrospect, it's certainly not offensive stuff, and incredibly easy to listen to. That said, there are some tracks that just don't quite work. The faint tribal chanting on "Congo" seems experimental for experiment's sake, and the guitars on "Throwing It All Away" are pretty, but the sentiment is a little overwrought, as are the lyrics overly-melodramatic to the point of banality on "Follow You, Follow Me." It seems as though the producers, probably under the urging of the current band members, were stretching to select tracks to fill a pre-determined quota. It might have been...
I will never expect to see the same kind of support for a Harvard-Yale football game anymore than you should expect me to come and see someone perform a chemistry experiment. We have different interests. Unfortunately, these interests are so diffuse that we often seem to be completely independent...
In Battle Creek, Mich., Greenpeace invaded cereal maker Kellogg's headquarters, calling its use of genetically engineered grains a "monstrous experiment." One of the Greenpeaceniks even dressed as Kellogg's trademark Tony the Tiger, renamed FrankenTony--after what British tabloids call "Frankenfoods."
"Right now, we are trying to gain experience and to experiment with our games. Our goal is to improve our squash for Trinity, Yale, and Princeton [in February]," Patterson said.
There was no lack of experiment and soul searching in these years. While Warhol was spinning out his sops to celebrities in sycophantic portraits and the swooning talkfests that filled his gossip sheet Interview, much of American art seemed largely earnest--as if it were a vast machine spitting out...