Word: kink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be tempted to deride anyone foolhardy enough to philosophize upon a money-and-corruption theme, to say nothing of consecrating six record sides to it. Well, if there is anyone in the realm of popular music that could make such an overworked story line appealing it's the Kink's Raymond Douglas Davies. His magic formula of piercing insight combined with a wry, subtle wit enables Davies to direct his songwriting talents toward atomizing situations of class and culture. Originally Davies dealt with situations that were inherently English, but ever since the Everybody's in Show...
...Conference is a serious effort to keep the system going as it is; a United Nations hope that some kink of dialogue can occur between Western and non-Western elites. Its results can at best only stem tides of hunger, joblessness, malnutrition, and the institutional paralysis that are the fruits of development to this point for the poor. There is a difference that can be made however, and an alternative future that can be shared more equally with the Third World. Perhaps, if the Food Conference helps Americans to see this necessity, it will have proven useful at least...
...kink in the system, Brown adds, is that everyone wants to type on the CRTs: "A copy boy one night was writing a message on one about going across town to see a friend. He didn't know it, but he was adding a paragraph to a story and it got in the paper...
Frantic Pace. This unexpected turn threw a kink into White's narrative that no amount of last-minute revision could disguise. White had originally allocated only ten pages to Watergate (in a book of nearly 400), prudently holding four more in reserve for postelection developments. The string of Watergate explosions in March and April rendered that plan thoroughly inoperative and forced White into a frantic race against future disclosures and the clock...
...styled "fellow-traveling member of Women's Lib" and the first member of the House of Lords to speak in favor of legalizing private adult homosexual acts. Longford and the bishops, social scientists, housewives, educators, pop stars and writers who made up the committee sampled pornography of every kink and kind. They interviewed purveyors, performers and police and sorted through the 5,000 letters that poured in to them...