Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carribean in search of a small nation willing to trade bananas for several metric tons of hospital waste. But that's nothing compared with New Jersey's efforts to give away its garbage. City managers have sent trucks rolling into rural Pennsylvania in search of an appropriate rock formation on which to deposit their load. Pennsylvanians, to their credit, have been pretty adamant about not taking the refuse. A dozen roses, yes, but they refuse to accept 750 tons of Twinkie wrappers and ex-TV dinners...
...HAVE a Coke in the morning," the radio announcer sang to a snappy rock and roll tune...
...Springsteen album is about dealing. Of course, this concept is nothing new--many rock stars have done the happily-married theme before. Even Springsteen has hinted at serious commitment in songs such as The River's "I Wanna Marry You" and "Two Hearts (Are Better Than One)." But he was still insisting to biographer Dave Marsh that he was "not ready to write married music yet." Girlfriends like professional groupie Karen Darbin, photographer Lynn Goldsmith and actress Joyce Heiser came and went...
...album's standout cut) could easily be looking at himself, a few years later, in One Step Up and noticing "I don't see/ The man I wanted to be." There is, in fact, much 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...
First Gary Hart and then Joseph Biden played themselves out of the presidential lineup because of foolish errors. Last week it was Michael Dukakis who stumbled badly. The Massachusetts Governor, whose image of rock- solid integrity has been a major selling point, had to accept the resignations of his two top aides for their part in bushwhacking the Biden candidacy. Worse, Dukakis first denied his campaign's part in undermining Biden, then revealed his aides' role, then hesitated before letting them go. His handling of the crisis made him look ill-informed and indecisive...