Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...verbal castigations or slander, that he does not fear death." With due allowance for rhetoric, the autocratic ruler of one of the world's unruliest unions was not exaggerating. Flouting Taft-Hartley is about on the order of brushing a speck of coal dust out of the eye. "We may be harassed, fined, put in jail," says Jim Nuccetelli of Cokeburg, Pa., "some of us might even die. But we'd rather die on the surface than in the mines under that contract...
...companies know that further howling about the stupidity of this proposal can only win them a better deal. So despite the generosity of the president's plan, Carter hit the bull's eye when he predicted that "still they want more." Perhaps if he had threatened the companies with something more drastic they would have been more willing to compromise on price regulation. However, as events have developed, both the House and Senate versions of Carter's proposal are even more lenient than the original bill. Both give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, which sounds like several obscene words...
...shimmering lights and the shifting imagery of stained-glass have entranced the eye and expanded the imagination since the evolution of the art some 16 centuries ago. Today, as pervasively as sunshine pouring through the great windows of Chartres, the resurgent art and craft of stained glass is irradiating the American scene...
...make the unlikely seem familiar. Snitter, for instance, has been the victim of mind-control experiments and consequently hallucinates a fair amount of gibberish: "There's a mouse - a mouse that sings - I'm bitten to the brains and it never stops raining - not in this eye any way." The effect of a terrier doing his impression of the fool in King Lear is at first disconcerting. It grows less so with each appearance, and those who stay for the whole show will find Snitter a thoroughly credible talking dog. The transformation is not exactly magical but, given...
...rest is history, much of it is yet to come. Zevon, who has just embarked on a modest concert tour, will be keeping an eye on the sales figures for Excitable Boy to see if the commercial returns are as strong as the critical ones have been so far. One thing that is certain right now is that Warren Zevon can run with fast company. Randy Newman, Jackson Browne. Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon ... he is as good as the best, can match their pace. Maybe, if he goes on growing, he can even set the pace. Just one question lingers...