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Held called the book "shoddy pseudo-scholarshipand rank anti-Semitism...
...sample the best of Freaky Styley, an album produced by funk wizard and leader of the groups Parliament and Funkadelic, George Clinton. Accordingly, these songs show tighter, more restrained guitar parts, such as those James Brown's bands developed, and an exciting use of horns. These four songs certainly rank among the band's greatest hits, and one only regrets that "Yertle the Turtle" from *Freaky is missing...
...result will be a federal effort that will rank as, to quote Jimmy Carter's response to the energy crunch, "the moral equivalent of war." Much more money will be funneled into public schools to upgrade them physically and boost teachers' salaries dramatically. Teaching will become, as it was in the past, a hero-like profession that lures some of the brightest college graduates. A massive public relations campaign will promote teaching as a career and learning as a central theme of national life...
HERE IT COMES AGAIN, THAT HARSH Ross Perot plan. Whoever would have expected that a tract on deficit reduction could captivate people and rank as a best- selling book? In United We Stand, Perot tells how he would raise gasoline taxes 50 cents per gal., boost the top income-tax rate from 31% to 33% and whack 10% out of spending for programs ranging from medical research to highway construction. The goal of such tough actions: to slash the federal deficit and balance the budget in five years. "What Perot has done is to put some real beef...
Medved has tapped into a general queasiness about pop culture, and not just from religious and social conservatives. A large segment of the public senses that the trash has risen to eye and ear level, and it smells rank. Freddy Krueger slices his way into little girls' minds, and Madonna's siren song & turns little boys into prematurely dirty men. Once the U.S. cinema was ruled by sentiment; now it is tyrannized by cynicism. Movies have assumed the omniscient sneer of a '50s greaser; they mock or duck any authority, whether the unfeeling parent, the stodgy teacher, the irrelevant clergyman...