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Mould's guitar is the backbone of this album--whether he's bashing out thickly fuzzed Heavy Metal riffs or breaking through the rhythm section with wildly distorted psychedelia. Meanwhile, drummer Grant Hart--who wrote many of the songs on the album--keeps things going, especially when Mould's guitar work ossifies into hackwork...
...Broken Home. Broken Heart," Mould sings of the pain of a broken home; on "Whatever," of parent-child misunderstanding. Either way, his howls of anguish sound genuine, with a passion that leaves the listener thinking of Ray Charles rather than punk. Even the album's one great footstamper--Hart's "What's Going On"--stands as a cry of frustrated bewilderment...
...idea of selecting a woman hit him in a flash of inspiration. It had evolved, growing in fits and starts. Mondale's musing about the possibility began last fall when his vaunted political machine seemed on the verge of locking up the nomination almost before the primaries began. Hart's upset victory in the New Hampshire primary in February rudely suspended such thinking, which did not resume in earnest until May. Said one adviser: "We started thinking we had to consider a woman candidate, but not really expecting at that point that a woman would be chosen...
Reagan's assistants are puzzled about how to handicap Ferraro's effect on the race. They concede she has some strengths. Some White House aides speculate that her selection might help the Democrats hold the votes of the Yuppies, who turned out heavily for Gary Hart but viewed Mondale as a man of the past. Ferraro also presents the Republicans with a delicate problem: how to campaign against her without looking sexist...
Ferraro has little use for the "new ideas" of the neoliberals. "She's not a Gary Hart 'let-me-describe-the-future' Democrat," says Democratic Congressman James Shannon of Massachusetts. Many of the younger Democrats on the Budget Committee have come to realize that entitlement programs must be cut to reduce the deficit. Not Ferraro. "She is very tough on not touching them," says Panetta. In stormy Budget Committee meetings, she resists any attempt to cut cost of living adjustments for the elderly, Government workers, veterans...