Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ramones undoubtedly have something more to say to kids than "get lobotomized" or "get sedated," but it's not just "blow up your schools," as Rock and Roll High School makes it seem. Their songs are hymns to pure energy, and their movie ought to be more tightly-paced, faster-rhythmed. Rock and Roll High School smothers the Ramones with a thick glue-snort of T.V.-style jokes and befuddles any attempt to understand their spirit...
This latest variation comes complete with a chorus line of Aggie football jocks bursting at the seams, an investigative reporter mildly reminiscent of the Rev. Billy Sol Hargas (Say Hallelujah!), and a tap-dancing guv'nah who says things like "the Jews and the A-rabs should settle matters in a Christian fashion" and "the real cause of unemployment, it's the people out of work." Given these elements, it's hard not to enjoy the show. For entertainment's sake, Whorehouse is about as close to dead solid perfect...
Nevertheless, Arledge and his analysts may have overestimated how much the other networks were willing to pay. Both CBS and NBC refused to say what they had offered the International Olympic Committee, holder of the TV rights, but their bids were probably under $200 million. One analyst reckoned that ABC might eventually lose up to $50 million...
...same age group, four-fifths of the males and nearly half of the females say they masturbate at least once a week...
That was putting it mildly. "Thieu objected not to specific terms but to the fact of an agreement," Kissinger writes. He did not come right out and say so. "Instead, he fought in the Vietnamese manner: indirectly, elliptically, by methods designed to exhaust rather than to clarify, constantly needling but never addressing the real issue." On the third day of meetings, the Vietnamese presented Kissinger with 23 changes, some major, in the draft peace treaty; later that figure would triple, to 69. Finally the talks broke down completely as Thieu, between tears of rage, accused the Americans of having "connived...