Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Talking Heads: 77 shows that the mature outlook displayed on the album cover carries over into the group's music. This is heady stuff--none of this "God Save the Queen" business. David Byrne, who wrote all the songs, indulges in complex, self-absorbed musings, sometimes assuming ironic personas to comment on the emptiness of life...
...sales pitch: If you liked Waiting for Godot, you'll love this album. But if you are turned off by the idea of troubled monologues, spoken by a "70s Man" surveying the new vacancy, devoid of the anger that animates a punk like Johnny Rotten, then save your bread. "Q'est-ce que c'est Talking Heads" indeed...
...live in a town where developers are tearing the trees down with no thought to the joy and peace they bring. It's great to know there are people who still care enough to try to save...
Named commander of the Second Fleet in the Atlantic in 1974, Turner resorted again to unconventional tactics. He checked on the readiness of his ships by making surprise visits by helicopter. Then he would toss a life preserver into the ocean and order sailors to save a hypothetical man overboard. His ambition was to become Chief of Naval Operations, but his plans were interrupted last March by his Commander in Chief. Since Turner remains in the Navy, he is accused by critics in the CIA of using the intelligence post as a steppingstone to the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...where most of the budget was threshed out with the President, Carter had to confront himself-surely one of his most difficult tasks. He is at least two people in budget matters. He is the parsimonious Depression-ridden small-town boy, the self-made millionaire out to work and save and waste not. But he is, too, the evangelical populist, bora again to minister to the needy. The contention of these two Jimmy Carters has confounded the experts for a year because a different Carter seemed to win out on different days...