Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychiatric staff in laboratories miles apart indicate that these lyrics, taken from the album Fear of Music by Talking Heads, foster feelings of paranoia, confusion and even suicidal tendencies among the teens who listen to it. Furthermore, the snarling, guttural singing style of the group's lead singer--Mr. David Byrne--along with the hypnotic, repetitious, electronically treated music the group provides, could provoke listeners with extant mental imbalances to acts of violent destruction. The same group, in fact, performed a song called "Psycho Killer" on an earlier album...
...experts who conducted this study unanimously report that today's public needs soothing, simple music designed to ease the strains of modern life. Music like Talking Heads', with its complex layers of oddly syncopated rhythms, serves no useful social function. Furthermore, their album is produced and heavily influenced by Mr. Brain Eno, a notorious balding man who named his second album after a piece of Red Chinese propaganda...
...Tonight show ("Heeeeeeeere's Johnny-Johnny!"). The bankrupt Ivy League colleges announced they would sell expansion franchises. Children won the right to divorce their parents and cruised "singlekids' bars" trying to find new ones; Hollywood capitalized on the trend with a smash-hit movie, Looking for Mr. and Mrs. Goodbar. Food shortages put the Fat Look in vogue, and fashion-conscious women draped themselves in Sheetrock, paper lamb-chop collars and plastic garbage bags. As the population grew older, self-conscious young people added years with Agequake makeup...
...Washington, D.C. The National Security Council has been hastily assembled to debate the American response to the breaking crisis in Asia. The president says, "Now where shall we start, gentlemen?" An aide raises a hand and breaks the silence, saying. "Mr. President, I believe we should formulate a series of balance sheets, starting with our adversary's partisan perceptions and leading to a yesable proposition we can present him with...
Abul Barkat Boston No Meeting In your story "Talking to the P.L.O." [Aug. 27] I am mentioned as having had a meeting with Ambassador Robert Strauss. I have never seen, much less spoken to, Mr. Strauss. As a Palestinian American I deplore the continuing policy of denying full Palestinian self-determination, and as a scholar and intellectual I am a party to the struggle for self-determination, not an intermediary...