Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After reading your harsh appraisal of the federal civil service, I was reminded of M. Beaumarchais's classic insight in The Barber of Seville: "Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency know many masters who would be worthy of valets...
...milder than its predecessor, but it still leaves the door open for an official secrets act and unprecedented restrictions on the freedoms of speech and press. In still another area, reform of penalties and sentencing, the bill features a set of jail terms and penalties that are far too harsh for most crimes related to drugs--not just hard stuff--and institutes mandatory penalties for a whole slew of crimes without regard to previous criminal records or the current overcrowding of already ineffective federal prisons...
...then came "The Talk." There was McLaughlin, one wintry January afternoon, face fiery red, eyes glistening as he modulated between soft pleads and harsh commands, begging while cajoling his troops in classic locker room speech...
...Perhaps most conspicuously, he is a superb storyteller, running true to the tough, hard-eyed tradition that embraces both writers like Raymond Chandler and film makers like Sam Peckinpah. One of the most commanding, demanding of Excitable Boy's nine songs is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, a harsh, haunted, hard-as-bedrock chronicle of a Norwegian mercenary soldier whose head is blown off by a turncoat CIA operative named Van Owen. Roland's ghost hunts...
Lyrics like that, tied to strong melodies that can be either stringently lush or stingingly harsh-real whiplash rock 'n' roll-make Zevon wonderfully weird and wholly unique...