Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that was prefigured by Running On Empty, or as in many ears fine-tuned to the "Old Jackson," the unveiling of the mass-marketable Browne stamped out by the starmaker machinery of the LA/Hollywood music industry. Either way, a healthy thread of the Old is still noticeable in the fabric of this studio slick, neon release: the familiar fibers--sun and stars, heart-and-drum-beat--have been incorporated in what feels at first an itchy, polyester-rich blend to those expecting Browne redux in torn T-shirt and broke-in jeans. And though the traditional elements remain, their combination...
...Marshall put less stress on the powers of Congress and more on the general principle that society must, in Marshall's words, promote "meaningful equality of opportunity, not an abstract version of equality in which the effects of past discrimination would be forever frozen into our social fabric...
...money. The result: less spending on plants, schools, roads, hospitals and other private and public projects. This will have a broad impact on U.S. society, because it retards industrial expansion, research and innovation. At the same time, the bond decline shakes public confidence in the nation's financial fabric. People wonder, if bonds are not safe, secure investments, what...
...doctors circulated a petition, which they plan to send to the two leaders and to print in The New York Times, starting that a nuclear war would preclude any civil defense, medical treatment or long-term recovery. "The economic, ecologic and socil fabric on which human life depends would be destroyed," the petition states...
With London Calling, the Clash have discovered the metaphor. It gives them new freedom to travel through musical idioms and political subjects, and they take the grand tour. While past Clash albums have contained many songs cut from the same musical fabric, London Calling races through a catalogue of styles and sounds that involuntarily brings the Beatles to mind...