Word: garret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sails In The Sunset (Columbia Records) by Midnight Oil: Midnight Oil plays. Australian political power pop virtually neglected by American radio. Hence, few will understand references to Down Under phenoms like "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" and "Kosciusko." It doesn't matter, though. Doubling as a lawyer, lead singer Peter Garret shouts and screams about the problems of Australian land settlement and aboriginal rights to a beat so fierce it could have John Lydon running for cover. I'm no big fan of Australian music, but this album made me want to forsake Budweiser for Fosters...
...single episode since violence between Protestant and Catholic militants first erupted in 1969. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who escaped an I.R.A. bombing attempt on her life last October at Brighton, in the south of England, called the attack "barbaric." Echoing her sentiments, the Irish Republic's Prime Minister, Garret FitzGerald, described the I.R.A. assault as "cruel and cynical" and pledged that Irish security forces would help hunt the attackers down. Police suspect that the killers may have slipped across the border into the republic, less than five miles from Newry...
Adams also criticized the government of Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald as a "small-potato republic mimicking its British imperialist masters." Thatcher and FitzGerald, who have been cooperating closely in the fight against I.R.A. terrorism, are scheduled to meet later this month to discuss the continuing problems that plague their mutual border...
...fact is that we do live in a certain amount of danger," she said. "You simply cannot live in a cocoon." Thatcher predicted increased pressure for a restoration of the death penalty, a measure she has always personally supported. She also announced that talks with Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald about Northern Ireland would take place in November as planned. "We are not," a senior aide vowed, "going to give in to the bomb and the bullet." -ByJayD. Palmer. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London
...conventions of 1950s imagery (blasted tree trunks standing starkly against a battlefield's orange sky, gauzily veiled glimpses of, yes, dens of iniquity) and symbolic set decoration (the wretched excesses of an aesthete's salon contrasted with the too tasteful austerity of an intellectual's garret), it intends an ironic comment on how Hollywood once tried literally to gloss over what it thought of as big, discomforting ideas. But such charity is drowned out by an insistently romantic score, by the screech of the melodramatic resolution to every crisis. Too bad the pipings of Murray...