Word: sawtooths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiscal bind is one that the Pentagon should have foreseen. Carlucci, who spent two years there in the early 1980s as the No. 2 man, has long grumbled, as have others, about the historic "sawtooth" pattern of defense appropriations -- way up for a few years, way down for the next few. In the early Reagan years, reversing a series of deep cuts in the mid-'70s, Congress voted military-spending increases as much as 13% above the rate of inflation; from 1980 to the peak in fiscal year 1985, Pentagon budget authority zoomed from $144 billion to $295 billion...
...production team sold 35 million singles and 12 million albums, and they like to say "We are the charts." "They're very contemporary in what they do," says Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. "However, their lyrical content is not, even they would admit, particularly interesting." SAWtooth productions like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up are basically transmigrated American soul tempered down and slicked up into a formula that makes fashion as much as music. "A single really is a three-minute throwaway piece of plastic," says Stock, as if he's talking about a miniskirt...
...title track of Springsteen's 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A., sounded like a marching song, but the rhythm thrust home a sawtooth short story filled with despair and defiance. The new LP is a little more straightforward and a lot more spare. Springsteen's E Street Band reveled on Born in the U.S.A. Here they hang back; indeed, on four songs the Boss handles the instrumentation by himself. Born in the U.S.A. was an album full of bright light and bold colors and deliberate, surreptitious contradictions. Tunnel of Love, by contrast, seems washed in autumn moonlight, pale and chill...
...thing that's going on down here now." That kind of freewheeling climate has encouraged inspired variations even on hidebound forms. Anyone who thinks there is nothing more to be done with a necktie ought to check out one of Morton's dazzling silks, cut on a crazy, sawtooth diagonal...
...have a canteen full of rum. Aching muscles told the day's history, and would retell it more insistently the next morning. Outside, stars snapped in the clear sky, just as they are supposed to do on mountain trips, and inside, feet wiggled in sleeping bags. For the Sawtooth voyagers, this day's chapter ended early...