Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another problem that hampers Springsteen involves his lyrical themes. It usually rings hollow for rock stars to sing in the first person about the drudgery of the working man, but Springsteen does it here on several cuts, including "This Promised Land" and "Factory." In other songs, Springsteen returns to the well of the road, fast cars and the outsider-looking-in that has supplied him form the start. But now the release and freedom that he used to find there has vanished, to be replaced by desperation and bitterness. On the title track, he sings that he has lost...
...person, Carter usually sounds more relaxed than he looks. Today his voice was soft and warm, but his eyes and manner were tense and alert. He has been going through a trying period during which he has been increasingly criticized as a leader who changes directions under fire, a man who allows too many policy voices and too many different signals to be heard. His laissez-faire style has left people uncertain about where the President stands. Lately he has been moving toward a more combative attitude...
...Moore and 80 of his special friends to dinner and proudly showed off a prize acquisition: 36 Moore sculptures donated by the artist. Across town, Moore mania also reigned in Kensington Gardens, where Londoners flocked to see a new, permanent display of his works. "A sculpture is like a person and you must treat it like one. You must put it in its best environment, like a person," says Moore. "That's why I like my large sculptures to be sited with trees and water, where they can get a change of light." How would the octogenarian...
...feature" never was. I guess I took it for granted that it would always be there, my ace in the hole. The appealing story of an even more appealing athlete and person. And likewise I guess I took it for granted that Bob McDermott would always be around...
...these things, but the worst was what I heard, which was about cannibalism. I never saw any man kill another person for meat, but it seemed irrefutably true that people were eating people meat. The usual defense was that the people meat was taken from the dead. In one village a mother was discovered boiling her two-year-old to eat its meat. A father was charged with strangling his two boys to eat them; his defense was that they were already dead. In one village, the army had insisted that...