Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz's tennis. That's the lingo of freedom that Soviet eavesdroppers love to distort. The U.S. team, wise in the ways of media, suggested the Soviets give them similar privileges. The issue is on hold while the Soviets go back to the manual...
...that the words are inaudible." The P.M.R.C.'s Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, evoked a "proliferation of songs glorifying rape, sado-masochism, incest, the occult and suicide by a growing number of bands." Zappa announced that "the complete list of P.M.R.C. demands reads like an instruction manual for some sinister kind of toilet-training program to housebreak all composers and performers." Nebraska Democrat J. James Exon suggested ominously that "unless the music industry cleans up its act, there might well be legislation." Singer Dee Snider showed up in tight jeans and a cut-off T shirt...
...last three summers, a dizzying lack of connections, coupled with an even more dizzying lack of qualifications and initiative, has put me among the ranks of the manual laborer...
Unfortunately, the presence of such people cannot soften the impact of another harsh lesson one learns on an assembly line. Manual labor is not edifying, and it does not bring one closer to God or nature. It destroys the mind...
...second floor of his 18th century house, Fowles follows a daily regimen of "natural drift" in a jumbled study overlooking the English Channel. He is a fast writer but a slow publisher. Composing "in a haphazard, cockamamy way" on a well-worn manual typewriter, he can turn out a draft of an entire novel in two or three months, but typically holds it for revision over a period of years...