Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...media presidency has been authenticated. The Association of White House Press Secretaries has been formed in high humor. Certificates of membership have been printed and issued with the above mock-heroic proclamation. Enter the age of A.W.H.P.S...
Annoyed and angered that Reverend Moon was preying specifically on the occasionally idealistic, always pressure racked Yale student we decided to form SCROD Using out own theology, religious dogma, diagrams and publicity stunts, we staged an ideological holy war, hoping to dissuade with humor any student who might feel drawn to join the Moonies...
While the B-52's no longer bop indiscriminately, they have lost none of the loony, self-conscious humor that made them so endearing "Mesopotamia" is a very intelligent album, much more cerebral than say, "Wild Planet." But it still makes you want to dance, which more often than not makes or breaks a pop album...
...HUMOR EMERGES in later numbers like title cut "Mesopotamia" or "Throw that Beat in the Garbage Can." the 52's best trick has always been to create danceable tunes, with lyrics so ridiculous that you feel tremendously self-conscious while twitching your feel. "I am no student of ancient culture," warbles the silly frontman Fred Schneider in "Mesopotamia," which he trumpets in concert as being kind of "geological." Before I talk, I should read a book." Yeah, he should, but these don't sound like the sort of lyrics that go with dance music...
...there, plugs his receiver into a $125 modem (a telephone computer hookup), and taps out a password on his $685 home terminal. A few seconds later Marc is into an ARPANET computer, 3,000 miles away on the M.I.T. campus. Once in, he can call up such files as "humor," "scifi lovers" and "info micro"-a collection of computer brain teasers. This free play, however, may soon stop. The Government, which has long looked on "visiting" as an annoyance, is now eliminating telephone links and devising more complicated passwords...