Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rock 'n' roll will never die" is a phrase that has been on the lips of more than one rock singer over the course of the last 30 odd years, and it will probably prove true. But the future looks to hold something for more ominous than the death of rock 'n' roll: its preservation. Not preservation in youthful splendor, like Dorian Gray, but in arrested decay--never improving but merely slowed in its collapse to an infinitisimal slouch, like Joan Collins on collagen-fiber complex, showing remnants of past sexiness and vitality but long past the capacity for excercising...
...band that Rolling Stone magazine recently declared as Number 1 in the land, U2, has been unanimously lionized in the media as the most socially-conscious band of our time. In an era in which humming for the Harmonic Convergence is considered an act of social awareness, a phrase such as "socially conscious" must necessarily be taken with a grain of salt. But even so, the phrase is obviously inapplicable to U2, since anyone who can discern a socially redeeming message in U2's incomprehensible lyrics should have a go at deciphering the Democratic candidates' platforms...
...more probable is a bartered nomination. That shorthand phrase describes an open and public preconvention bargaining process in which the surviving candidates feverishly try to assemble a majority by negotiating with blocs of unpledged or loosely committed delegates. It is politics on the model of a Middle Eastern suq, where almost anything is possible if the price is right...
...when Dole said that Iowa voters should "think of Bob Dole as one of us," he was referring not just to his regional proximity but to the hardscrabble heritage he shares with many of them. It was a matter of class, of culture, of sects, of tribes. The phrase revealed the bitter resentments against people like George Bush that seem to reverberate in Dole's dark inner soul. Bush, the quasi-New Englander, tried to usurp the "I'm one of you" line when his campaign moved to New Hampshire. But from his mouth it sounded a bit silly...
Woman begins with a semiconscious housewife (Stockard Channing) hearing her doctor (Simon Jones) speaking in apparent gibberish; it ends with her speaking it herself, turning the muddled phrase "December bee" into a last futile grasp toward sanity. Along the way, she alternates between kittenish manipulation and alienating acerbity, between sly concealment of her growing disorientation and frank revelry in it. She appears to have two families: the real ones are a dried-up vicar husband, a sanctimonious sister-in-law and an estranged adult son. The imaginary figures, who burst in accompanied by golden light and birdsong, are beautiful, adoring...