Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...velocity alone it could shake the Top Ten out of its discofied trance dance. The raw intensity of the sound is, paradoxically, the very thing that may thwart the record commercially. Whatever its fate on the charts, In Style shows Johansen as a rock-'n'-roll acolyte-part anarchist, part jester, part street bopper -keeping the faith alive...
...contrast, the NIA subjects were all healthy, vigorous men. Yet if there is no such thing as male menopause, what causes the sexual decline? Harman suspects that it may be owing at least in part to changes in the central nervous system's ability to send messages along its numerous pathways...
...with the enormous, haunted eyes of a Keane waif, of a wounded bird, menaced and fragile. Readers who have grown over the years to admire the superb moody intelligence of Joan Didion's prose have first had to learn that this alarming vulnerability is an affectation and a part of her strategy as a writer. Despite all the fits of weeping and the killer migraines and the California dreads that blow across her novels and essays like the Santa Ana winds, Didion is on the whole as tough as a bounty hunter, and about as fragile as a brick...
...journalistic essays. Didion is best when the literary transaction is personal and direct, when she is a live character reporting her own wanderings through the splendidly strange California of the late '60s and the '70s, a California that elaborately belongs to her because it is in part her own invention, like the persona that describes...
...only rational. We hold back from the leap of despair that would let us see that human society always carries within it the capacity to commit such butcheries and think well of itself. Yet as World War II recedes into the past, the death camps have become part of the common memory of those who were neither victims nor executioners, but who share uncomfortably the humanity of each...