Word: paradoxes
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Fully understanding that paradox was shocking.It meant me and my mom were only partly right.Everything wasn't going to be just fine. Somethings would. Some wouldn't. And I was just goingto have to deal...
...seasons and came within one game of going to the World Series in 1991. Yet the Pirates are perennial losers off the field. The club has chalked up losses totaling $13 million since 1989, including $3 million in its division-winning season last year. The Pirates blame this paradox largely on soaring players' salaries, which cost $24 million, or 52% of the club's revenues, last year. To make ends meet, Pittsburgh cut more than $7 million from its payroll by trading 20-game winner John Smiley and letting slugger Bobby Bonilla become a free agent...
Jammed into a paradox...
...paradox is striking: voters are demanding in their leaders the personal virtues that they decreasingly demand of themselves. The trend is not confined to matters of sex and family. There's money too. The public has worked itself into a righteous frenzy over Congressmen overdrawing checks at the (private -- no taxpayer money involved) House bank. This, while the American public, without any discernible protest, annually overdraws its national account by $400 billion a year, which amounts to the average family of four borrowing over $6,000 from its children to pay for its current indulgences. There is a word...
Which brings us to be paradox of how something can be alternative and mainstream at the same time. The answer is: Easily, once it becomes profitable to produce music that sounds as if it is somehow against the grain. If the music-buying public has a taste for amplifier feedback, singers in plaid, nuns with guitars, whatever , odds are they'll get it. Because despite this wonderful vision we have a musical subculture, pretty much all music in America is pop music. Popular, as in we the people who crew it up to the tune of hundreds of millions...