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...maybe there are some things money just shouldn't be allowed to buy, sensibly or otherwise. Socialist philosopher Michael Walzer added flesh to this ancient skeleton of sentiment in his 1983 book, Spheres of Justice. Walzer argued that a just society is not necessarily one with complete financial equality -- a hopeless and even destructive goal -- but one in which the influence of money is not allowed to dominate all aspects of life. By outlawing organ sales, you are indeed keeping the insidious influence of money from leaching into a new sphere and are thereby reducing the power of the rich...
...band is most successful on Oranges and Lemons when it does what it does best: performing hard-hitting rhythms accompanied by Partridge's elastic vocals and social statements. "Poor Skeleton Steps Out" is an excellent example of XTC's characteristically choppy beat, ehhanced by xylophone effects in this anti-sexist, anti-racist song about the confines of human flesh. This theme is continued in "Across This Antheap," a song which criticizes humanity's tribalism with lyrics like "Still segregating 'cause we insects are too proud" and "The stars are laughing at us as we crawl on and on across this...
...best songs on the album is "Merely a Man," which contrasts with "Skeleton" and "Antheap" in its optimism for mankind. Partridge suggests that "With logic and love we'll have power enough to raise consciousness up and for lifting humanity higher." This is one of the few instances on Oranges and Lemons that Colin Moulding has a chance to come through with a powerful bass line, making the song one of the album's strongest in spite of Gregory's unneeded and sometimes overdone guitar solos...
...recognized and responded to the grandeur of its hallucinogenic fever. Platoon was crazy from the inside, a surrealist's scribbled message from hell. Parker's film is quite another thing: an outsider's report, not autobiography but psychodrama, with a texture as real as newsreel. And yet its plot skeleton bears similarities to Platoon. In both films, two strong men fight to establish American values in a hostile country, and to claim the soul of an innocent. In both films, the local nonwhites -- yellow or black -- are less a group of dramatic characters than a plot device, a shadow...
Sleek and sinister, the plane resembles a death machine out of Darth Vader's workshop. Swept back in a single delta-shaped wing, its curved surfaces feature no protruding stabilizers, almost no sharp corners or bends; its dark gray-and-black skin and skeleton consist of layers of graphite epoxies and ceramics honed to extremely fine tolerances. Virtually invisible to radar, it has been called the greatest achievement in military technology since the atom bomb. With the advent of the B-2 Stealth bomber, the U.S. could be on its way to maintaining military dominance well into the next century...