Word: hards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fisk is not moping around the clubhouse too much. After facing Detroit last month, Fisk said, "Yeah, I batted like a limp fish today, but I'm not going to take it too hard, because the more you think about it, the more you will fall into a mental slump, and that leads to worse." Fisk also said that he will take his sore elbow through the season a "day at a time, because at this point I know its hurt, I don't really know how, and there's nothing I can do to make it better but take...
...Bowie has always made his best music when he assumes a persona--that's become one of the cliches of rock journalism, but it's true. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars defined a hard-hitting, loud, fast rock sound four years before the Ramones hit the road. To make that album in 1972, Bowie set himself up as the glittery, self-destructive androgyne Ziggy. More masks followed, dizzingly, along with more fine albums--Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station, and a popular if antiseptic excursion into Philadelphia funk, Young Americans. Then...
KILLING THE MONSTER is also sanctioned by the Church. The triumph of Britain's Hammar horror films is that thay exploit the connection between aggression, sex, and religion. Each blow of that long, hard stake into the writhing female vampire's bosom practically reverberates with church bells. Perhaps unintentionally, these movies make it easy to see how poor, repressed Puritans could have burned men and women at the stake for witchcraft. Chances are, we would have done the same...
...price rise of 1973, U.S. banks led the way in trying to "recycle" the dollars that flowed into the oil-producing states and were then invested in the West or parked for short periods in the major institutions of industrialized nations. Much of this money was loaned to the hard-pressed developing countries to help them pay their ever heavier oil bills. The international banking system came through that operation in much better shape than many of the pessimists believed possible, though the amounts involved were huge...
...going Treasury-bill rate, currently 8.87% for six-month bills. But the M.M.C.s did not bring in just new money; they also attracted funds that the thrifts already held in lower yielding savings accounts. Result: the savings institutions' deposits held up, but their profits were squeezed hard, since they were trading low-payout depositors for high-interest M.M.C. holders...