Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they seem to want to. The rest of the first side of the album with songs like "Bad Brain" and "It's a Long Way Back" fit well into standard punk molds: perfect 4/4 time, straight drum beat and guitar lines with the subtlety of a jack hammer, or a seal-clubbing expedition...
...oligopolistic, profitable industries in the economy--big oil. Not only do the top eight petroleum refining companies possess 14.5 per cent of the the market, they also control the other stages of the production process. And as anyone who has taken Ec 10 knows, the oil industry does not fit the classical model of perfect competition. The vertically integraged oligopoly does not set its prices at MC equals MR, but at the highest prices consumers will pay without hurting the corporation's profits. Combined with OPEC's 1979 price increase of 14.5 per cent, Carter's hikes will push...
...village thrills is driving. For thrills, European driving beats roller coasters hands down. Driving full speed is the manly thing to do, and everyone delights in weaving their small cars around other small cars, usually at the most dangerous intersections. European drivers have discovered that three cars will just fit on a two-lane road, so they often pass even when another car is coming, knowing that they can probably still squeeze by. White-haired French grandmothers drive like American teenagers, and as for the French teenagers--their driving makes the Grand Prix look like a drivers' safety course...
...popular star trekkers. He is the Borges of scientific culture, whose "mortal engines" promise that mystery will not end with the last flesh-and-blood human. Reading A Perfect Vacuum, one can easily imagine banks of Lemian cybernoids arguing whether man exists and how many science-fiction writers could fit on the head of a microchip. - R.Z. Sheppard
...TIMES, too, the symbolism is too blunt. One theme that runs through the movie is Dave's disgust with the outmoded, conniving ways of the gypsies. If he has any mission it is to "bring the gypsies into the twentieth century." Fittingly he is the only gypsy with an American name other than Sharon. Dave, Tita, Rosa (their mother), and Groffo fit the older brother, younger sister, mother- and-father pattern of the ideal American family, despite their infighting...