Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, it is amusing to hear the Federal Government criticized for coming up with a report that contains little more than "common sense." We should applaud the fact; the Feds have outdone themselves in reaching such a high level of intellectualization. Let's see more common sense...
...ALMOST amusing to hear liberals on campus talk about Ronald Reagan. They don't mention Reaganomics or the Reagan Revolution. They don't mention Reagan's philosophy or his tremendous success. They only talk about what a "fool" Reagan is: how he can't remember basic facts, how he blunders through his press conferences, how he is stupid, lazy, and surrounded by inept advisers...
...come only from some deeper social commitment. Soldier of Plenty and the title track make glancing observations ("People die for the little things/ A little corn, a little beans") and ask some pointed questions: "I want to know who the men in the shadows are/ I want to hear somebody asking them why/ They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are/ But they're never the ones to fight or to die." This is angry, aggressive songwriting, too deft ever to be dogmatic, too melodic ever to turn strident. Lawless Avenues, co-written with Jorge Calderon...
...mean they play rock with no fuss and maybe a little sloppiness that can pass for funk. The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who made their first album in 1979 and have opened concerts for the Rolling Stones, still have the true chugalug spirit of a bar band--you can almost hear the beer bottles whistling past their heads during some of the tunes on this rambunctious album--but they also have the musical chops of a top session group and the considerable singing and songwriting talents of Kim Wilson, who also blows a mean blues harp. There is a lot of inbreeding...
...Without hearing arguments or issuing an opinion, the high court voted 6 to 3 to uphold that decision. (The dissenters wanted to hear arguments.) In the appeals-court ruling, Judge Frank Easterbrook, a Reagan appointee, agreed that depictions of subordination perpetuate subordination. But, he wrote, this did not permit Indianapolis to hold that materials presenting women in sexual encounters premised on equality were lawful, no matter how explicit, while those treating them in the "disapproved way" were unlawful, no matter how valuable the whole work. Said Easterbrook: "This is thought control...