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...rightful place in the pop pantheon. Effortlessly inventive and seething with melodic and rhythmic vitality, this collection of raunchy rap riffs, detonating dance rhythms and silky soul ballads is Prince's best album in years, proving that his pioneering amalgam of funk, rock and pop is as fresh and potent as ever...
Radio is the last intimate medium. For harried commuters and lonely homebodies, it is mouth-to-ear resuscitation, a voice crying in their wilderness. In the '30s, radio carried potent political messages, from Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats to Fiorello La Guardia's reading of the comics during a newspaper strike to Father Charles Coughlin's charismatic hatemongering. Today that voice is still as personal as a conscience or a demon. Especially at midday, when the bass thud of a barroom rock band announces the arrival of Rush H. Limbaugh III, 41. "Ensconced in the Attila the Hun Chair...
...Harvard can't contain the potent Lafayette offensive backfield, it could suffer its worst defeat of the season. With senior back Kendrick Joyce and senior split end Colby Maher both questionable for today's game, the Crimson offense will have an even harder time getting started today than it has in the past...
...independence can percolate everywhere. Yet something has been lost. Think of all those wonderful words which are endlessly suggestive to the repressed ear. Words such as viscous, fluid, ballast, balloon, column, effluence, and dampness hide beautiful messages behind their innocent facades. In a literal environment they are not longer potent. What a loss to the imagination if you can't chuckle over your bun, or prize the profundity of eructation...
Patient pressure groups have been a potent force in American medicine for decades. The 13 specialty centers that make up the National Institutes of Health, the epicenter of America's biomedical-research enterprise, are monuments to special-interest advocacy. Polio vaccines grew out of pivotal research funded primarily by the March of Dimes. But as the organizations grew, under the leadership of professional lobbyists and fund raisers, they opened themselves to the charge that they had lost touch with their grass roots and become a part of the system they were supposed to be influencing...