Word: primal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Side 2, the man ponders continuity and eternity. As a husband, he sings All About Soul -- soul as primal music, as warm love, as a wisp of immortal spirit. As a father, he sings a lovely, McCartneyesque Lullabye that sounds like a dying man's goodbye. As an optimist, he prays that "we're on the verge of all things new" after Two Thousand Years. Both songs trust in children and art as the "vintage" of the next millennium...
...principle: no sellout. Fugazi has never made a music video, never appeared on MTV's Beavis and Butt-head. They charge only $5 a ticket for their live shows and keep their CD prices between $8 and $10. Their music was grubby before grunge was grunge, featuring primal drum rolls, furious guitar feedback and more-leftist-than-thou lyrics. "You better start living the life/ That you're talking about," go the words to the group's 1988 song Bad Mouth. Despite this anticommercialism stance, or perhaps because of it, the band has a fair-size, near fanatical following...
Some former Perot associates and admirers think his primal instincts are opportunistic and contrarian. Says John White, the Harvard professor who was Perot's chief economic adviser last year: "Sure he's sounding more Republican, but all he's doing is getting to the right of Clinton. If Bush were still President, Perot would be talking like Bill Clinton." Nothing about Perot's politics is simple except his determination to impose his agenda on the system. Doing that requires subtle maneuvers and temporary alliances, as those Republicans now dallying with him will discover when he tires of the romance...
...package in which all the songs sound alike. But the film will be a crowd pleaser and a curative because Tina Turner has lent it the voltage of her star presence and the joltage of her awful, exemplary life. The concert stage was where she could release, through her primal art, all the anguish inside her. It was also the cage Ike kept her in, shackled by duty, love and fear. Tina had a right to sing the blues...
Procrastination is a long-standing tradition among Harvard's undergraduates, dating from well before The Game and counting many more disciples than ice cream in the Union, sex in Widener and the Primal Scream. My classmates and I have done our best to uphold the tradition, starting off gently with a few late problem sets our first year and eventually blooming into full-fledged cases of seniorities...