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...statistics attack American standards--sometimes literally, such as when it tells us of the 40 percent of Iowans who have a hard time singing "The Star-Spangled Banner. The Index, in fact, is unsparing in its depiction of the folkways of the Midwest. Nebraska, it turns out, has 376 one-room school houses. Half of first-time brides in Kentucky are teenagers. Turning its sights on the nation as a whole, the Index informs that every year 6312 postmen are bitten by dogs and that American's favorite meal is steak and potatoes...
...clear that Bruce had to tone down the hysteria with his next step. He needed to release an album that was more absurdly anti-commercial than Nebraska to alienate some of the excess audience...
...brand-new car with a sandpaper chamois. Using only simple instrumentation, with an occasional synthesizer riff or guitar blitz, Springsteen has created a modern surrogate for the resonant mystery on old blues and early rock records. This makes Tunnel of Love close kin to his 1982 solo effort, Nebraska, which was meant to sound homemade. Tunnel of Love takes that approach even further, into the mythic heart of American music and some slat-roof recording studio -- maybe on a prairie, maybe near a delta -- where a singer sits down, lays down a few sides, then % vanishes into the long night...
...reconsider the 1984 Orange Bowl. But suppose there was no second-ranked Auburn. Then the only teams remaining in the national championship framework are Miami and Nebraska. And still no overtime...
...Osborne can go for the almost-guaranteed extra point: Nebraska wins the national championship because Miami failed to knock off the Number One team. A tie is as good as a win; but it's not the way you want to win a national championship--or even the Ivy League title...