Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corporate product-plugging accounts for the presence of such mediocre bands as the Urban Verbs, Pearl Harbor and Robin Lane, all of which sound slick, derivative and, well, utterly tame in comparison to their earlier counterparts...
...route to Kansas City from Denver, on the last leg of his year-end tour, the one-time pizza maker from suburban San Diego celebrates his thirtieth birthday. It's Pearl Harbor Day in this wintry, flat midwestern town...
Waits also spent a good portion of 1979 holed up in a Paris loft, collaborating with artist Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams) on a book of portraits of American heroes, to which Waits has contributed the text. "You know, people like Marlene Dietrich, Mohammad Ali, Meyer Lansky, Pearl Bailey, Jimmy Durante, Adam Clayton Powell...
...realize that we need a unified student government for the same reasons the Faculty realized they needed a Faculty Council 11 years ago. We've got to have a strong student government to find out what student opinions are and to represent them before the Faculty and students." Pearl says. Conceding that many students are critical of the assembly, she maintains, "There may be some grumblings about the assembly now, but once we are accorded the larger role in decision-making that we deserve, we will prove our worth to students...
...Pearl says she hopes the review "will place the assembly in a position of direct involvement in decision-making." The current problem, she observes, "is that when the assembly passes a resolution, it is in a complete vacuum--no one has to listen. We should be involved in the meetings where decisions are made, not just be stuck reacting to those decisions with resolutions...