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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taking a bit of turn towards dissonance, but weird chords shouldn't scare anyone away. Songs like "Driver 8" and "Life and How to Live It" find these Georgians in familiar territory, mixing the Velvet Underground and the Byrds to great effect. As an added bonus, you can even hear some of Stipe's lyrics...
...When I hear such views expressed I usually ask myself why certain people are so enraged over these latest patriotic movies and not upset over so many other similar films in our past. For decades after World War II Hollywood produced scores of movies in which America's war against Fascism was presented as a struggle between good and evil. The loss of German and Japanese life in them is in many cases greater than the loss of Russian and Vietnamese life in Rambo. Yet I've never heard anyone react with moral indignation against these simplistic portrayals of what...
...simplistic analysis of the world especially approve of these movies. If the film simplistically denigrates and villifies American values and actions, it is proper and laudable. If it simplistically glorifies American values and institutions, then it is reprehensible and deserves intellectual castigation. How happy I would be to hear Harvard students (even once) denigrate Sydney Schanberg's intellectually childish and morally perverse opinions that he expressed so forcefully in The Killing Fields. His distorted presentation of the facts of the U.S.'s intervention in Cambodia to prevent a Khmer Rouge victory deserves far more castigation than anything contained in either...
...working in a record store then, too. People were coming in and asking to hear John's music, but I just couldn't bring myself to play...
Whether or not Afghanistan joins the "media chic" remains an issue for speculation. One thing is certain, however: What we don't hear about the Afghan struggle today will take up much space in tomorrow's history books. Perhaps, like some perpetually belated Greek chorus, the public will once again ask, "Why wasn't this prevented...