Word: horned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curiosity Stateside than a genuine phenomenon, which raises the question of why they did not start to concertize on home turf. Catching the group live may provide an answer. They need the studio, with all its electronics and synthesized sleight of hand; they need the invention of Producer Trevor Horn, his ability to sandwich them like luncheon meat between thick layers of sound. They got famous before they got good...
...more years! Maybe they're cheering the system. Maybe they're cheering themselves. Odd to think that at the center of the orgy lies the center of the country, the nation's history and reason for being resuscitated and kept alive in the tooting of a horn. On the following pages observe several revelers and their leaders in the midst of a process of continuity at once so corny and sublime we can hardly explain it to ourselves. But here...
...this drive that turns a Clark kent-style French horn player into a mighty center, able to flatten opposing noseguards in a single pounce...
Indeed not. Her Majesty's American holiday, five days in Kentucky's Bluegrass country and four in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains, was her first unofficial trip abroad since 1967. Unlike the spectacular public tour of California last year with President Reagan, last week's vacation was determinedly private. Her accommodations, while grand, were also chosen for their isolation...
Churchill to Roosevelt, March 4, 1944: 'Thank you very much for your assurances about no sheep's eyes at our oilfields at Iran and Iraq. Let me reciprocate by giving you the fullest assurance that we have no thought of trying to horn in upon your interests or property in Saudi Arabia. My position on this, as in all matters, is that Great Britain seeks no advantage, territorial or otherwise, as the result of the war. On the other hand she will not be deprived of anything which rightly belongs to her after having given her best services...