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...only study working-class types appear on their album covers. Four uncharismatic youths from Manchester fronted by an ascetic-looking vegetarian with a voice like a choir boy crossed with Slim Whitman, the Smiths burst out in '84 with music that breathed new life into the pop ballad. Vocalist Morrissey (maybe soon singers will call themselves just Sam or Mary) possesses a voice that floats in and around Johnny Marr's guitar riffs in elegant, almost improvised anxiety. Morrissey's lyrics express the range of human emotions from suicidal depression to mild unhappiness; he's the ugly...
...Smith's second album (or second point five Hatful of Hollow contained only one side's worth of original material) shows once more how quickly a band can succumb to it's own worst tendencies. Their latest, Meat is Murder, rails against all of Morrissey's petoutrages; nasty schoolmasters, abusive parents, and carniverousness. The title track epitomizes everything wrong with this record album. With the mooing of cows in the background (electronically processed to sound like singing whales) Morissey says...
...elsewere as a single and on Hatful of Hollows) and "this Joke Isn't Funny Any More" have emotional or intellectual integrity--but only by covering well-trod territory the sexual anxiety of an unappealing ingenue. The Smiths, despite their musical originality and superior sensibility, are hemmed in by Morrissey's hang-ups. The newest single. "Shakespeare's Sister," (not on the album is just more yodeling about "going to see the one I love," Where is Dr. Ruth when you need...
...stake in the firm. The union will also gain a seat on U.P.I.'s board. The Washington-based news agency will slowly restore wages to their current levels by Dec. 15, 1985. "This is the worst agreement I have ever recommended to the membership," said William Morrissey, president of the Wire Service Guild. But Ruhe and Geissler took a less somber view. They expect the agreement to enable U.P.I, finally to turn a profit next year...
...friend and former mentor. Mickey Morrissey (Jack Warden), hopes the case will bring in some cash without much effort. The Archdiocese which runs the hospital where the accident took place seems willing to settle out of court and keep the doctors' names out of the papers. But Galvin, a crusader against the corruption of the Irish. Catholic world in which he lives, refuses to take the easy route. He rejects the offer and insists on taking the case to court, thus making the verdict of the court, whatever it may be, more than a judgement of the suit...