Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heads, in spite of Eno, still have a lot of first-class material on Remain In Light. "The Great Curve," "Houses In Motion," "The Listening Wind," and "Once In A Lifetime" set the standards by which the Heads new music will be judged. "Once In A Lifetime" is an incredibly complex song that is in fact three songs laid on one backround--polylyrics for plyrhythms. The continual exuberance of the polyrhythms matches the Bo Diddley beat in providing an automatic source of energy in a song, and this should encourage many groups to get funky. Could this be the trend...
...this month Foot will take the first step in the long march toward his possible ascendancy as Britain's Prime Minister. The occasion will be a mass Labor Party protest against the Thatcher government in Liverpool, where unemployment is running at 15.2%, almost twice the national average. In spite of his crutches, Foot is determined to join the demonstration march when it converges on the docks of Merseyside. Last week he delivered his first salvo against the Thatcher government: "We will proceed to unite to attack the outrages and infamies which this government is inflicting on our people...
...spite of the inherent solitude of the goalie position, Erulkar enjoys the close camraderie of the Harvard squad. "I played squash in high school," he says, "But I didn't like being shut up in a little box with one other person...
However, in spite of what the dominant white bourgeoisie press says, the Black underclass is organizing itself to confront the dominant white class of exploiters. In the summer of 1980, over 1,000 delegates from all over the country went to the Brooklyn Armoury to from the Black United Front...
...cutting our nose to spite our face, almost like not voting," McKinnon said. He added that Cambridge representatives can help the ERA by speaking before the conference about the amendment...