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Slat 6 songs are strikingly simple: typically, there's one guitar hook, one notable response from the bass line, and a short song text whose point is a one-line chorus: then it's on to the next pop song, where they repeat the process. The paradox, if you want to call it that, is that their total simplicity of means ends up with such an emotional wallop: one tune and one line from this record can take over your whole day, if you're lucky. what remember of "Time Expired," for example, consists of the chorus--"Time expired, violation/It...
...What paradox. Up until a couple of years ago, the consensus was that the 1970s were a bad joke that Father Time had mercifully put to an end. Everyone was very happy to have escaped from those days, of malaise...
Remember Zeno's Paradox...
...rapist, a condign mutilation. Let one-third of his instrument of crime be removed surgically. If he rapes again, let one-third of what remains be removed. This is a sort of pre-emptive judicial Bobbitt-lopping. Let the justice system and its surgeons play Zeno's Paradox on the rapist's johnson and see how many offenses he is equipped for. (Zeno's Paradox, of course, states that a traveler going from, say, New York to San Francisco must first travel half the distance between the two cities, and then must go half the distance between that point...
Here is the paradox of America's bursting debate over guns and violence: fear of crime has become both a cause and an effect. A nation saturated with weapons is a terrifying place -- where people feel safer if they own a gun. The ambivalence shows up over and over. A TIME/CNN poll this month found that 70% of Americans favor gun control and 78% favor mandatory registration of all guns. Yet 74% oppose a ban on handguns, up 10% in the past two months alone...