Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chambers (then a senior editor of TIME) told HUAC that Hiss was a Communist. Not so, said Hiss, who also insisted that he had never known Chambers. But Chambers knew so many details about Hiss's life?including the fact that Hiss, an amateur ornithologist, had once spotted a rare prothonotary warbler on the banks of the Potomac?that his adversary was finally forced to reverse himself. Then Chambers made a more serious accusation: that Hiss had passed State Department secrets to him in the late 1930s...
Offering the world a rare glimpse into the mores of the oil-rich desert kingdom, the Saudis confirmed that the executions had taken place, apparently last July. In their protest to the Foreign Office, the Saudis insisted the pair had not been married at all. Indeed, they stressed that marriage of a member of the royal family to a commoner is no crime in Saudi Arabia. The princess and her lover had been executed after a "sentence by an Islamic court for adultery?and for an adulterous act the law is death." According to the Saudi protest the British press...
...result, the antiques market is at present enjoying an unprecedented boom. The demand for a piece of the past was such that the auction houses hammered down one record after another in 1977: rare books ($360,000 for John James Audubon's Birds of America), Sèvres porcelain ($102,600 for Marie Antoinette's delicately painted milk pail), American furniture ($135,000 for a Boston-made mahogany bombé chest, circa 1780), even tin toys ($3,105 for a Mickey Mouse organ grinder...
...largely unsuccessful. The idea of doing an album comprised of musical reflections on one central idea is a noble one; but all too often, the listener is bludgeoned with the artist's self-proclaimed sensitivity, the connections are strained, and the themes themselves are pretentious or trivial. In the rare instances where concept albums have succeeded (Randy Newman's Good Ole Boys, for example), the songs have seemed like elements of a large orchestral work; the whole has seemed greater than the sum of its parts. Such records are the exception, though. Concept albums generally fail to do the very...
...especially noteworthy is, quite simply, its gimmick. It's the most comprehensive and sympathetic portrayal of life on the road that a rocker has produced to date; and the idea meshes well with the production techniques used to bring it to life. Running On Empty is one of those rare records that vindicates the idea of the concept album. Unfortunately, anybody out of L.A. could have made it. Browne's uniqueness, at least for the purposes of his latest release, appears to have been lost somewhere on the road...