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...them while we entertain them and not the other way around. And people allowed it to happen! But now they're not. Now there's a hell of a lot of new bands come up with exactly the opposite attitude. It's not condescension any more. It's plain honesty. If you don't like it, that's fine. You're not forced to like it through propaganda. People think we use propaganda. But we don't. We're not trying to be commercial. We're doing exactly what we want to do--what we've always done...
...plain fact is that any President has the right to appoint those individuals who will be responsive to his policy orientation. Perhaps the drive to replace various U.S. Attorneys in the country springs from a recognition that other things, like drugs, hard crime and consumer abuse, are as worthy of prosecutorial attention as political corruption...
There is great sympathy in these songs, observations that can be caustic and still stay fond. Work like this makes it quite plain that for all the contradictions, Billy Joel is writing and singing some of the best pop music in the neighborhood. It might even make Virginia Callahan think twice...
SATELLITES. In 1972 the U.S. and Soviet Union agreed that a "national means of verification" could be used by both sides, without interference, to police arms control pacts. In plain English: spy satellites were legal...
...players who cannot compete with the younger players, but I can't see rescinding the whole lifetime exemption because of those two or three guys. These people helped make the tour. There's no way you can take away their exemption after the fact. They won it, plain and simple, and it's theirs...