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...Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has even likened the emigration to desertion from the army. Other critics contend that those going to the U.S. are motivated by the most crass materialism. One comment in the Jerusalem Post last week was typical: "They want to be lulled into nirvana by the hum of a six-cylinder auto engine, the whir of a food processor and the strains of an expensive stereo. They want to come home from work and be pampered, to make a lot of money and stop caring...
...revolutionary comrades. It had a vastly greater effect. It threatened to topple the center-left coalition of Christian Democratic Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, one of the most promising governments in Rome in many years. It transformed this week's regional and local elections from a ho-hum event into a hard-fought and hard-to-predict contest. And it seemed certain to give the powerful Communists a valuable opposition issue for some time to come...
...phil professor at Brown, and for a long time I didn't understand what he was doing with his life. I took Hum 5 freshman year, and I got hooked...
...hum. How else do you describe a month which steals away hockey and refuses to offer up baseball in return? At least if the weather was nice we could work off some of that winter waistline outside. Anyone for wiffle ball...
With the flotsam out of the way, one can concentrate on the Metamatic's real successes. The single drawn from the album, "Underpass," has steadily climbed the British charts, and it's easy to see why. Five steady synthesized beats enter over a shifting electronic hum, and then all hell breaks loose. A six-note phrase is repeated on two different scales at breakneck pace. Echoes and imitations emerge from behind the phrase's hidden contours. Amidst this turmoil, Foxx delivers the verses, in mechanized fashion with metallic overtones, and screams the chorus from a world away. "Underpass" beats recent...