Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...casual listener can seem almost excruciatingly pedantic. These guys actually have a sense of humor, which is a lot more than you can say about such dogged revolutionaries as the Clash. When King screams. "The girls they love to see you shoot" or "Life! It's a shame" in concert, you almost have to laugh, and by their commanding presence on stage, they betray the happy revelation that maybe they aren't that hardened after all. Maybe Marxism can even be fun: their lyrics merely good principles to go along with, not written in stone dogma...
...play the game anyway: Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were suddenly to fall silent? Easy: No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. What if John Updike were to stop writing? A shame, but not a duster for American culture. Walker Percy? Joyce Carol Gates? Donald Barthelme? No. Philip Roth? Joseph Heller? William Styron? Truman Capote? John Gardner? John Irving? Norman Mailer? Stop It gets to be a pogrom. The mind flips through its card catalogue. Very few disastrous silences loom...
...Down the Road a Piece," didn't make it onto Still Life, the Stones' latest album, a live summary of their 1981 American tour. And that's something of a shame, because the Stones played plenty of true golden oldies while travelling the U.S. last summer and fall. They could have done a great service to rock and roll by recording only those tunes as a pure tribute to their own roots. As it is, the two best cuts on the return--Eddie Cochran's "Twenty-Flight Rock" and Smokey Robinson's "Goin to a Go-Go"--are both...
...Coop But in contrast to the merry Preppy Handbook and the 101-things to do with-a-cat books. How To smell rotten--like the kid who stole Geometry homework in the 10th grade. The authors seem to believe what they preach arguing earnestly. "It would be a shame it [any college student] should, through simple ignorance of the system, be rejected by every medical school in the world. "Their merciless blugeoning of the language only complicates the crime: "Comparing high school to college is like trying to compare a white Kleenes to an intricately woven seventy-foot high tapestry...
Khomeini then turned his attention to nonaligned leaders who are scheduled to meet in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in September. Declared the Ayatullah: "You will earn yourselves eternal shame if you choose a dead murderer as your leader. You cannot cleanse him of the stains of his crimes, even if you use all the oceans of the world. Don't trouble yourselves...