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Most heavy metal songs strike one as being about sex, fast cars and power--traditional themes of rock 'n roll, if more explicit--but several groups write lyrics that are among the most thoughtful and compelling in music. Iron Maiden, for instance, have put out songs on such assorted topics as the Crimean War, Coleridge's poetry and the white man's brutal conquest of the American Indian. Maiden write about literature, history and science fiction, but never, ever, about the shopworn topics that saturate contemporary rock music...
...fought the Japanese, the French, the Americans and his own countrymen to win an independent, unified nation. For the past month, Hanoi has played host to thousands of visitors, foreign and Vietnamese alike, as they paid homage to the frail little man with a will of iron. The pilgrims move slowly past Ho's body lying on a glass-enclosed platform in the neo- Stalinist marble mausoleum, stopping only for a short, formal...
...pitching was very good in the second game.Tony pitched a very good game," Durand said. "Weneed to iron a couple of things out, but we'vereally cut down on the mental errors that plaguedus in Florida. We have a strong lineup whereanybody can come up with a big hit. We just needto be more consistent offensively...
Nixon, who describes as one of his strengths the "iron butt" necessary for long hours of scholarship, had done all his homework when he met last week for two interviews in his office in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., with TIME chief of correspondents John F. Stacks and editor at large Strobe Talbott. "What is striking is that he regards these interviews as serious works and prepares for them," says Talbott. "He works out his talking points in a detailed fashion. He has a definite agenda...
...fighting was a new blow to Romania's provisional government and a brutal reminder of how easily ethnic tensions can explode in Eastern Europe. Freed from the iron rule of the Ceausescu regime, Romania's 2 million ethnic Hungarians (in a total population of 23 million) have begun to campaign for greater autonomy in Transylvania, where most of them live. Their demands have outraged Romanian nationalists. Several clashes, including the savage beating of four local leaders of the Hungarian Democratic Union, led up to the latest hostilities...