Word: rigidness
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...very point we hope to make. In order to battle a stubborn social and commercial hierarchy, the punks are forced to adopt their own equally stubborn and doctrinaire ethic about what should and should not be done. Within the punk culture, the political spectrum is inverted, but equally rigid: The hard-nosed right of the punk movement, the purists, hold all of the principles we’ve just mentioned to be self-evident truths, and would sooner stop listening to music altogether than listen to music that has breached this contract...
...Police, Offspring, Greenday, Rancid and Blink 182 all decided that the spreading of the musical word is more important than a rigid code of conduct—they are the classic punk sellouts...
...selfish Lena, not Rolf, Elisabeth’s alcoholic husband; not even Frederick’s supremely bourgeois mother. The film tells a story about real people, stumbling through life, and the movie knows what the characters eventually learn: that one cannot be happy living behind the rigid walls of idealism. It is to the film’s credit that it never tells us how things should be, but rather how things are. Maybe the characters aren’t perfect. Maybe their relationships aren’t perfect. But they survive because, as one minor character puts...
...cost, European airline that is already using a new system. According to Jef McAllister, Time's London Bureau Chief, who flew the carrier recently, it's a welcome change. Last weekend McAllister took Ryanair from London to Brussels and on the outbound leg had to follow a rigid one carry on bag per person rule (and no big ones). On the way back, things go more serious: there were no carry-ons allowed at all. "I had to check my computer bag, the first time I have ever done this," said McAllister. "I was only permitted a book, which...
...don’t have rigid enforcement mechanisms, but that’s the nature of the course. We allow tutor autonomy to a certain extent,” Bybee said. “It’s about quality control…we try to make sure everybody is operating from the same playbook...