Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reilly asserts that the movement for a less sexist society will be easier for the generations of American women ahead of her, and that her generation--a transitional one brought up on the myths of stable marriages and clean kitchens--is suffering the worst confusion. Reflecting on her path, O'Reilly affirms, "Of course I was happy being a feminist. After all, consider the alternatives." And she paints a most dismal and starkly honest picture of those alternatives...
...biggest hit they've had (getting more play than "Psycho Killer" from the Talking Heads: '77 album). An entire album like that probably would have broken them into the big time. But art-rock groups do not always seek mainstream acceptance. The Talking Heads have instead followed the path started by "I Zimbra," a seemingly one-shot affair that got heavy play on disco stations because of the nonsense lyrics' throbbing polyrhythmic background...
...evening also saw a B.U. assault on the record books with freshmen Barb Sumner and Sue Kitchen, and junior Shawn McCluskey, blazing the path towards five new team and pool records...
Fortunately, this album has not followed the path of the Bowie-Eno collaborations, which allowed Eno's synthesizers, loops and feedbacks to dictate the tone. Instead, the Heads have chosen their own tone, and the tone is funk. People knew things were up with the band when they toured this summer with Parliament-Funkadelic's horn section, and then it was announced that Byrne and Eno would release an album based on African tribal songs called My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (whose release has since been blocked by legal difficulties...
...sidewalks. In the culture of freeway or gridlock, the bicycle is a fragile but aggressive intruder. Today around the nation the shaken fist and flourished finger are exchanged between bikers and cabbies and bus drivers and commuting motorists-and, above all, pedestrians who chance to step in the path of a kamikaze ten-speed scorching silently up on the blind side. Bicycles, those sweet chariots of the old Consciousness III, now flourishing under the flag of narcisso-fitness, are becoming a distinct source of urban tension...