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...thesis: man evolved from perverted apes who ate the brains of other apes. Brains being an aphrodisiac, they increased the sex drive, which in turn increased the need for more brain food. This diet increased the size of the ape man's brain and his intelligence. Unfortunately, the skull did not increase as fast as the brain, and the resulting pressure distorted man's view of himself as a part of nature. The squeezed-brain syndrome gave rise to man's Faustian saga in which cannibalism became the way to knowledge and power...
Still little known in the U.S., Glasgow-born Maggie Bell is a European rock superstar. Her impassioned, straight-from-the-gut delivery-equally effective in bluesy ballads or skull-crushing rockers-has twice earned her election as Britain's top female singer. Her earthy vitality and ability to light up a stage convinced Atlantic and Polydor talent scouts to sign her up in 1973 for $750,000 worth of recording contracts. "I've never had a hit record in my life," admits Maggie. "But I'm a working-class girl, I don't spare the effort...
...them to sport Beatle-length hair. To traditionalists' complaints that he was turning the Bundeswehr into the "German hair force," Schmidt asserted: "I couldn't care less whether long or short hair grows on the scalp. I'm only interested in what's inside the skull...
...when the family friend returns to the farm and is shot by the local police. This is enough to turn the boy, now a young man called Tunin (Giancarlo Gianinni), toward anarchy and toward Rome, where he journeys to fire a bullet, engraved with the initials B.M., into the skull of Benito Mussolini...
Senator Howard Baker. "A smoothy?impressive" but also possessed of a "thick skull...