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...announce itself through stereo head phones." "He was right, of course, but luckily that never deterred performers such as Dylan or the Clash from shoving their hard-line radicalism down our throats. Their music is so compelling that we have forgiven them whatever ideological are they had to grind Occasionally, we even supported them in their assorted causes...
...gets the righthanders. "Pete is a hitting machine; Yaz is a hard-working hitter," says Perez, who collected his own 2,500th hit the other day. Yastrzemski's career batting average (.286) is the lowest of the 15 men who have made 3,000 hits. He had to grind harder and longer...
...more computer-collected campaign funds to distribute. But the younger Republicans also tend to be more rigidly ideological and militant on issues than their predecessors. Arizona Congressman John Rhodes gave up his post as Minority Leader two years ago, largely because he got fed up with the daily grind of trying to reason with unreasonable newcomers. By contrast, many recently elected Democrats ignored local party organizations, made it to Congress on their own, and thus have little sense of loyalty or obligation to their ostensible leaders in Washington. Tip O'Neill, who does not enjoy having to meet regularly with...
...clearly the work of a solemn literalist (and a man with a taste for perverse ritual), not that of a cynic or a sensationalist. But motive makes small difference in the end result. The film best serves the values of the dimmest lurker in the deepest shadows of the grind house: it has lots of nudity, plenty of gross-out guts and gore, two or three scares-and it makes no sense whatsoever. Anyone grownup enough to gain legal admission to the movie (it is rated R) will probably find himself either reduced to guffaws or wishing he had stayed...
Trend-setters. Comfortable with the opposite sex and partial to high fashion, the ranking socialites insist on an appearance of casualness while they grind is out just like the rest of them. They shake hands and puck cheeks with studied grace, sometimes sleep together, and always talk about it within earshot of their elders...