Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most striking thing about James Taylor's new album, That's Why I'm Here, is what isn't there: madness, suicide, drug addiction, disaffection, loneliness, alcoholism, adultery, break-up--in short, the pain that has inspired some of his best songs. The album's front cover features Taylor in a clean white shirt with a big happy smirk on his face, while the back cover shows a grassy field filled with red flowers. The whole affair reeks with healthiness...
...actors have turned the tables on the Inspector by speaking a language he cannot understand. Frantic, he yells to his chief over the phone, "If this isn't free expression, I don't know what is." Despite his anger, or perhaps because of it, the Inspector himself unintentionally catches Dogg and forgets English. He is left struggling to explain himself to his chief over the phone...
Granted, a commercial offering information on birth control acknowledges that many adolescents are sexually active, a status quo that the Religious Right would like to change. But isn't the issue here saving lives? Not to air the commercial is to cause the death of thousands of fetuses conceived in ignorance...
...combat the Balmoral Blues, some palace watchers suggest, Diana has followed a course of shopping therapy. Feeling low? Then just take a spin out to Harvey Nichols and buy a few Bruce Oldfields. "Fashion isn't my big thing," Diana insists. But during the first year of her marriage, when she was assembling a royal wardrobe, her clothes and accessories reportedly cost about $2,500 a week. For trips abroad she plots her outfitting like a general drawing up plans for battle, studying the slick fashion magazines, then huddling with favorite designers. She also practices a kind of guerrilla shopping...
...Italy, was left with two legal cases. One was brought by Carlo Longo, an angry local newsman who lodged a formal charge of "piracy" against President Reagan for the way the U.S. tried to seize Abbas on Italian soil. Said Longo: "Maybe they won't arrest Reagan, but Sicily isn't just an American colony. It's a matter of principle...