Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perchance the past has a future-and will work. In a sense "that Ackerman boy," who turns out to be Edward Arthur ("Ned") Ackerman, a bearded, moderately grouchy 36, is simply doing what most pragmatic Maine-landers are also doing these days: turning away from expensive fossil fuels as fast as they can. Wood is already stacked high against nearly every house, ready to be fed to wood-burning stoves and fireplaces this winter, when the temperature, as it always does, will drop to 20° below and the cost of heating oil will rise to 90? per gal., about...
...form of "guest workers" who have been allowed in on a temporary basis to fill factory and public service jobs. But in Britain, by contrast, most of the minorities are citizens; moreover, fully 40% of the country's nonwhites were born in Britain, and that proportion is swelling fast as a result of a birth rate that is 50% higher than the national average. Yet there is an almost unconscious refusal to accept them. In the last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup in February 1978, 49% thought that nonwhites should be offered financial help to return...
Judges share the blame for the courts' delay. In Pittsburgh, criminal judges have almost four times the caseload of those in The Bronx, but dispose of cases five times as fast. Why the difference? Because some judges take an active role in pushing a case along from the moment it is filed. They enforce strict deadlines on filing motions and papers and limit pretrial discovery; in short they stop lawyers from delaying. In other courts, judges sit back and let lawyers set the pace by handing out postponements freely...
...first high school band was Fast Eddie and the Electric Japs ("We used all Japanese equipment - real cheap - and hung a souvenir war flag of the Rising Sun behind us"), from which Johansen graduated to another group more easily than he graduated from Port Richmond High ("Lunch was definitely my favorite subject...
Relaxed bemused and in conversation, with the slightly seedy, long-legged grace of the star forward on a reform-school basketball team, Johansen in performance is is like the living soul of big city rock, restless and implacable. He works fast (lyrics for three of the tunes on the new album were written while the band was off having dinner), performs at white heat. He likes to keep the music simple, the lyrics spare, so that a song like Flamingo Road reaches high and wide, becomes an angry, baiting confessional stashed inside a catchy pop threnody. Flamingo Road...