Word: soft
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...Chicago and Milwaukee and New York, oh yeah, and all the soldiers fighting in Vietnam." What follows is a thirteen minute picture of broken lives and death, an unmitigated tragedy broken only by hints of the absurd. "Machine Gun" begins with a dying melody that sinks into the soft earth. Then Miles' drums and Hendrix' guitar produce a series of machine-gun rattles that turn the mood from melancholy to chaos. Hendrix' solo is cinematic montage of the tragedy of war over the constant refrain of the machine-gun beat. His voice is choked and unsure, perhaps the worst singing...
Xiaomeng Tong's "Human Rights Hypocrisy" (signed piece, Apr. 5, 1995), raises too many issues for one letter to supply sufficient response. Yet typical of a Beijing party-line invective, albeit a soft-pedaled one, the editorial quietly intends to deflect the international issues at hand between the U.S. and China to matters of "internal affairs," both Chinese and American. Certainly, to point out the U.S.'s inequalities (which we can expect to be exacerbated in the fallout of the Newtonian Congress) is no panacea for China's woeful inability to understand democracy, and Tong's choice to ignore China...
...disappearance of the death penalty issue has been gradual, but in presidential politics its last gasp may be traced to the 1988 campaign. Michael Dukakis was hammered by George Bush as soft on crime; Dukakis's opposition to the death penalty became a centerpiece of that attack. The Willie Horton ads might have been defused if Dukakis had come out as a strong supporter of executions; instead, Dukakis allowed the death penalty issue to be used against him, turning in one of his worst performances by muffing a debate question about whether he would support the execution of a criminal...
...Having a soft spot for Mr. Shaw, I was thrilled to find a letter from him in the shelf lists of the Harvard University Archives. Luckily, he didn't let me down: 23rd November...
...their friendship develops, it becomes unsure who's curing whom. Jack is entranced by Don Juan's tales of seduction, filmed in sunlit soft-core porn scenes with a bevy of scantily-clad beauties in exotic locales...