Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small businessman. He also happened to be another of the President's favorite people: an energy-crisis fighter, an advocate and indeed a practitioner of "small is beautiful" technology. Hydroelectric plants of no more capacity than the one at Brown's Mill, he told the now fast-fading uh-huh in Washington, are being built for $6 million. Could a taxpayer in good standing borrow $30,000 to restore a single little bulkhead? Hello? Hello...
...wouldn't ever want to run for public office again," she said. "He should just lead a quiet life from now on." Four satin-shirted high school musicians played Hail to the Chief. Nixon plunged into the crowd, pressing flesh, absorbing adulation like a man breaking a long fast...
...with opinionated, often blunt assessments. And some spice. Pericle Felici, 66, the "ruthless" front-running candidate on the right, is said to use a telephoto lens to monitor Pope Paul's movements about his palace. Another Curia Cardinal, Giuseppe Maria Sensi, is said to be "a lover of fast cars" who currently zips about in a red BMW 3000. In Guatemala, Mario Casariego has been so closely identified with the regime that his automobile is always accompanied by "a radio patrol and two armed motorcycle guards...
...involves his lyrical themes. It usually rings hollow for rock stars to sing in the first person about the drudgery of the working man, but Springsteen does it here on several cuts, including "This Promised Land" and "Factory." In other songs, Springsteen returns to the well of the road, fast cars and the outsider-looking-in that has supplied him form the start. But now the release and freedom that he used to find there has vanished, to be replaced by desperation and bitterness. On the title track, he sings that he has lost his money and his wife...
...stands out after a couple of listenings as one of the better musical cuts. A tinkling bell and Springsteen's razor-sharp guitar follow the beat of the vocals while drummer Weinberg turns in his best performance on a restless cymbal. Thesong is colored by skillfully manipulated dynamics as fast and slow, soft and loud roll back and forth with Springsteen's vocals. But unfortunately, this winner has an insipid and trite song like "Factory" sharing album space with...