Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson announces in the liner notes that each side of Blaze of Glory is meant to be listened to continuously, "as if it were a song cycle." The operative verb here is "as if it were," because no matter what Jackson says, removing the spaces from in between songs does not a song cycle make. Take, for instance, the opener, "Tomorrow's World." It begins promisingly, with breathy vocals sitting side-saddle on a set of naked guitar arpeggios, driven by an obsessive pattern and punctuated by an incredibly satsifying bass drum. Particularly effective, too, are a series of abrupt...
...Madame Butterfly" type aria. This segues into an instrumental, "Acropolis Now," which begins promisingly as a hybrid between '80s rock and Greek folk guitar, but it begins to maunder soon after and degenerates into a fairly close approximation of a jam session by a forgotten, early '70s band. The side closes with the title track, which reverses the problems of the opening cut; a suitably anthemic chorus is surrounded by a song about a "young boy" named "Johnny" who could "make the young girls...
...schedule does not adequately accommodate student's needs, as the riders of the 1:10 Memorial Hall-to-Quad shuttle will attest. The number of students--especially during inclement weather--almost always exceeds the capacity printed on the side of the bus, and it is often packed so tight that some riders can't even get on. The run is not only inefficient, it is unsafe for the riders. Clearly, a second bus would ease overcrowding and double the convenience for riders...
...Sunday's UC meeting, have to turn into a referendum on the very principle of ROTC programs. Once we realize that Harvard ROTC members aren't really being hurt by Harvard not having a program on campus, the issue looks like this: on one side, there's a 15-minute bus ride every once in a while for 3 percent of Harvard's students, which is apparently "inconvenient." On the other, there's an institution that openly and systematically discriminates against a minority which numbers at least 10 percent at Harvard. Throw in all the other problems of ROTC...
...Says a House leadership aide: "We were being procedural nerds with our pants drawn up to the armpits saying, 'We have to wait for the report, we have to wait for the report.' Meanwhile the leaks were hurting. We needed something to rally around." History is on Wright's side: Congressmen have been reprimanded and censured before and several Speakers mildly investigated, but no Speaker has ever been ousted...