Word: prays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thatsimple. Recipe is a slam-dance soundtrackwell stocked with memorable hooks and defiantlyrics. At its best, the album is comparable toAgainst the Grain or No Control. Andwhile it is blighted by some real duds--theFugazi-inspired "All Good Soldiers" comes tomind--Recipe is chock full of terrifictunes. "Don't Pray on Me" is a lilting wail aboutthe L.A. Riots which manages to work in mentionsof Daryl Gates, South Vietnam, Moses and MarilynMonroe. "Skyscraper," a crowd favorite at lastmonth's show at Avalon, is a straight ahead rockerwhich colonized the ear with its soaring andsimple chorus...
Weathering both applause and derision, Graham has through the years become America's perennial deus ex machina, perpetually in motion, sweeping in to lift up spirits befuddled by modernity. When Presidents need to pray, it is Graham whom they call; he ministered to Dwight Eisenhower in the White House, spent the night with the Bushes on the eve of the Gulf War. Richard Nixon offered him the ambassadorship to Israel at a meeting with Golda Meir. "I said the Mideast would blow up if I went over there," Graham recalls. "Golda then reached under the table and squeezed my hand...
Many of the local clinics in the Boston area have regular protesters who do nothing more than stand outside with a couple of signs and pray. While annoying, these protesters are not the ones that the Clinic Access law is directed towards. It is the terrorist tactics of forcefully blocking clinics and physically intimidating women that need to be stopped...
...this kind of game, while focusing criticism on the correctable, you ultimately concede the uncorrectable; you ultimately concede the uncorrectable; you let the team off the hook and pray for a more fortunate schedule next season...
...psittaceous repetition of this really rather uninspiring sentiment has gotten altogether out of hand, a testament to the built-in fecundity of the banal. There appeared on posters: "Life is Short: Play Women's Rugby," as well as "Life is Short: Pray Hard." One activity put it on posters without even bothering to make a "clever" adjustment--simply "Life is Short...Play Hard," followed by the organization's name. To the publicity directors of the offending organizations, here is a message in terms you will understand: "My fuse is short, don't try so hard." These posters only convince...