Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barbara Johnson, chair, Department of Women's Studies, reflected that to her the strength of this piece was in its "lack of governing consciousness. The desire to establish a solid ground from which the rest can be seen as spectacle is exactly what this performance thwarts. It is constantly impossible to say what the true story is. [This is] both the artistry and the political strength of the performance. A desire to get to an authoritative version would exclude a lot of the voices and a lot of the disturbance." Members of the audience also raised questions about systematized power...
Vice president Dan Quayle has been more solid in his opposition to abortion. But he's done his own share of flip-flopping. After a highly publicized attack on television character Murphy Brown's decision to bear a child out of wed lock, Quayle now insists he has no problems with single mothers...
...teams are really good," Burroughs said. "However, I think we are really deep. We might not have the flashy players from last year's team, but our hard work has made us solid...
...early work of British rocker Peter Gabriel, whose new album Us on come out on Tuesday, followed all three trends. Gabriel's group Genesis joined solid musicianship to an arty attitude and used both to produce a string of murky, meandering albums. Clinging to rock's new-wave margins, Gabriel subsequently released three solo albums, all self-titled, and then a fourth, named Security. He filled all four with rock philosophy and single-issue politics...
Although Peter Gabriel has given up on storytelling, Us is a solid album. Maybe it's good that Gabriel has loosened up. Loved, laid and dissed, he may have accumulated enough emotional baggage to make rock's founders proud...