Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BoDeans, four guys from the Midwest baptized by the fire of good old rock 'n' roll, have just released their first album. Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams it's called, an appropriately no-nonsense title salvaged--for reasons of reverence and resonance--from the lyrics of the Rolling Stones' Shattered. So far, this record stands as the most galvanic major-label debut of the year. Some 35,000 copies sold, and still counting. First single just released. Video on MTV. Band on tour. Fans everywhere. Count...
LAST WEEK'S New Republic launched a powerful bazooka blast at the heart of Brown University's educational system; the article lampooned the department of semiotics, chortled over a class entitled "Rock and Roll is Here to Stay," and made light of the general superficiality of our neighbor to the south...
...office contracts internally, it will expand into the greater Harvard community by stepping up aid to the financially struggling graduate schools. Since each graduate school is responsible for soliciting its own donations, a system known as "every tub on its own bottom," the schools with the richest alumni roll in the money, while the poorest schools struggle with debt. While the Medical School, the richest graduate school, will mount a $200 million fund drive this summer, the Divinity and Design Schools are trying to stay out of the debt that they suffered last year...
...sure, the Senate is not planning to treat viewers to cinema verite. There will be no panning shots of the near empty rows of desks, no cutaways to Senators yawning or fidgeting. To try to add some suspense to roll-call votes, a clock showing the countdown to the 15-minute limit on voting time flashes occasionally on the screen. In reality, the Senate is not the least bit bound by the 15-minute limit, so the TV clock will disappear after 14 minutes have passed...
...Chicago: "This has been going on since 1984. If they would just make up their minds and tell us what the tax law is going to be, we could go on and do our business." That prospect seems increasingly probable now that the committee's proposal is on a roll. President Reagan, speaking last week to the Tax Reform Action Coalition, a group of corporations and trade associations, gave the Packwood plan full support. Said he: "Starting right now, getting it passed and signed into law is a top priority...