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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, Walk this way. And when the country had to mourn, he led it in grieving that was eloquent yet unbowed, as in 1986, when he postponed his State of the Union address to speak of the Challenger disaster. "We will never forget them...
...glider came in over a hedgerow of trees about 80 ft. high and nosed down into a level pasture. It was a hard, pancake-type landing. The front strut came through the wooden floor of the glider and ripped toward the rear, barely missing the legs of some of the troops. We had landed a hundred yards from the personnel-assembly point at the crossroads of Les Forges. It was early evening, and we had about four hours before dark. After a quick check of the surrounding area, I selected a large field adjacent to the Les Forges crossroads...
...with the Middle East’s low ceiling. At one point, during a small dance routine, he even does the splits and comes up grinning at fellow Living Legend Scarub, who accompanies Murs set. Sacrub remains unimpressed. In accordance with the Def Jux community spirit, Scarub gets to strut his own stuff several times, particularly after Murs does a string of “Girl raps” including a song dedicated to “All the girls who ever gave me head...
...Sombra,” Susman’s voice appears deliberately quavery, overpowered by the gathering waves of chiming guitars and snowballing drums. Yet the album never abandons the ideal of pop music, taking some surprising and ambitious turns in order to keep the pretensions light-footed. The garage strut of “Take The Bit Between Your Teeth” sounds like Jack White might if he were a girl, and went to art college. But Susman has some vocal chops entirely her own: the supersonic double punch she delivers on “On Parade?...
...indie delivery is couched in undistinguished material that sounds like Pavement B-sides. There are some more upbeat moments: “Caught In The Rain” features one of Stairs’ bummed-yet-cheery choruses while “Line It Up” musters a strut that the rest of Monsoon only gestures towards...