Word: hearings
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Once upon a time, last week in fact, a meeting was held in the august headquarters of the U.N. to hear the grievance of an Arab diplomat. He reportedly pleaded: "We ask for gasoline to be allocated for diplomats because they are in a terrible situation." Said his loyal assistant: "We are using a lot of gas. We have to stand in line, and this is affecting our work...
...Skylab debris strikes a populated area, the U.S. Government will hear about it in a hurry. The State Department last month designated one member in each of its overseas missions as a Skylab officer to brief foreign governments on the facts of the spacecraft's fall and what the U.S. was prepared to do in case of serious damage. In India, the U.S. specialist, Thomas Vrebalovich, went to unusual lengths to pacify critics of the American space venture. He told journalists that if NASA faced the choice of steering Skylab toward either India or America, it would most certainly select...
...supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no "meaning" beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience...
...Back to School Days) and the nakedly personal (You Can't Be Too Strong, which concerns an abortion). In all, not suitable for an easy listen or a fast dance. "I know my music makes people nervous, that it's not what the average person likes to hear," Parker muses. "It's got blues, soul, a lot of different things in it." What gives the songs much of their spirit and a good deal of their body English is frequent adrenal shocks of anger. These dosages may be taken as a tonic at regular intervals, or they...
Squeezing Out Sparks, however, keeps bumping around the lower reaches of the Top 100, and part of the purpose of the Parker barnstorming is to push the record. The future is by no means clear, although Parker holds it in perspective pretty well. "I only want people to hear me, hear my songs and lyrics," he told TIME's William Blaylock. "I'm no prophet or anything...