Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MESSAGE of the album is put forward on the second song, "Tougher Than The Rest," my personal favorite, better even than the brilliant single "Brilliant Disguise." What the Boss wants to say is that love is something you've got to be ready for and ready to fight for: "If you're rough enough for love/Baby I'm tougher than the rest," he sings, while millions of teenage girls swoon...
...explanation for the extreme views and exaggerated statistics in Hite's report may rest with her methodology. The author went about gathering her data by mailing 100,000 questionnaires to a variety of women's groups in 43 states, ranging from feminist organizations to church groups to garden clubs. Her questionnaire listed 127 essay questions on subjects ranging from dating to hobbies to parents, many of them rather abstract. (Admits Hite: "You can quantify orgasms, but you can't quantify love.") After receiving the first 1,500 responses, Hite says, she made a demographic comparison between her respondents...
...that attempted to define the role of religion in Israeli life. That declaration, known as the "status quo," made several key concessions to religious authorities. Among them was a pledge that the traditional Friday- evening-to-Saturday-evening Jewish Sabbath would be Israel's official day of rest. Ever since then, Israelis have been quarreling over the practical implications of the status quo. With the same single-minded tenacity that infuses their Talmudic studies, the religious militants are seeking to transform the agreement's loose principles into a legal web of pro-Orthodox statutes...
...lyrical speculation on manhood in this record, as if Springsteen, disgusted with the rock-Rambo hype that surrounded him during the Born in the U.S.A. concert tour, decided to right the balance. These men are racked and struggling, and if one of them sings he's "tougher than the rest," from a song of the same name, he sounds like he's faking it. No rebels here. This album is populated by people down the street who are trying their damnedest just not to be victims...
Kramer's knack to score was most evident in Harvard's 8-0 triumph over Brandeis earlier this season. The sophomore forward scored three goals in a span of six minutes before sitting out the rest of the game...