Word: foolishnesses
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...shouldn't come as any great surprise that she performs the Classics 4's "Spooky." Yet the sheer bravura of the act is comparable only to the early Bryan Ferry solo albums where he gleefully went through the motions on clinkers like "It's My Party" and "These Foolish Things." Half off and half on key, she swoops through the lyrics, even adding that final and sincere "Spook-aye" to the choruses. The band, comprising Jack Ruby on bass, Douglas Brown on drums, and Pat Irwin on everything else, is again excellent, walking the thin line between competence and shambles...
...therefore capitalistic. We have to accept that we will not bring about an immediate disruption of the economy; we can work in gradual phases until we get to our goal. In the civil service, of course, racialism will have to go. But it would be a very foolish man who would immediately take over and overthrow the system...
...militants in the embassy echoed Khomeini, adding that "if the Shah is not extradited, any expectation . . . about the reconsideration of the situation of the hostages is a foolish expectation." Lawyers retained by Tehran are expected to file extradition papers in the next week or so in Panama, where the Shah has been living in exile. Though Panama probably will hear the suit, chances are very slim that it will hand over Iran's former ruler...
...foolish, even sad, to savor the victory as an act of geopolitical symbolism, Americans nonetheless had a right to be proud of their boys. A pond-hockey pickup crew of collegians, they had knocked off an athletic machine assembled from the best that the Soviet army and the Moscow Dynamo could produce-the best team in the world, professional or amateur. Basically the same Soviet outfit trounced the National Hockey League All-Stars at Madison Square Garden last year. The Soviets have won the title in every Olympics since 1964; the Americans last took the gold 20 years...
...What a foolish statement Biologist Ruth Hubbard made, saying that in vitro fertilization reinforces society's notions that women's lives are worthless unless they bear children [Jan. 21]. No one is forcing fertilization on anyone, but now unfertile women have another option. It's quite miraculous...