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This trivialization of musicality sharpens the focus on the lyrical content of the songs, which is in turn supposed to be biting and irreverent social criticism. The point here is to revolt, to exact change and progress from a stubborn status quo and from an unwitting and unthinking society that abides by that status quo. And from this it follows that any attempts to popularize one’s music are to be avoided at all costs. The Descendents rather acutely capture the geist that we’re working towards here: “We never did a popular...
...reading experience as well. The Corrections has a remarkable view of the world, and this is made apparent through our encounters with the Lambert family. We first meet Enid and Alfred performing the slow and futile rituals of married life after retirement. Alfred, reticent and principled, is waging a stubborn battle against Parkinson’s disease. His struggle frustrates Enid, a Midwestern mother of three grown children striving to maintain a fantasy of proud normalcy and prosperity in her own life and in the lives of her children. The Lambert children are not exactly cooperating with that fantasy. Chip...
...stubborn conviction, of course, has nothing to do with intellect or the complex scientific calculus of cellular biology. It has to do with emotion, and our need to believe that cures or vaccines are imminent possibilities, just tantalizingly out of reach - rather than potential blips on a decades-long horizon...
...serious thought" to a bolstered observer presence to "soften the phase shift" once NATO pulls out. But no one really believes the N.L.A. is going to fade into the hills, however many guns it hands over in the coming month. Ten years in the Balkans have regrettably demonstrated the stubborn inertia of armed conflict. Just as in Bosnia and Kosovo, NATO could find the potential cost of leaving higher than that of sticking around...
...tell them to be candid. This is a message he's going to hear from a number of people." Top Democratic strategists and fund raisers blame Gore's loss not on the Florida recount or the Supreme Court but on Gore himself--his lame performance, inept campaign and stubborn mishandling of Bill Clinton. Indeed, party leaders on both coasts say Gore must patch his rocky relations with Clinton. But those close to Gore still defend his distance from the scandal-plagued President, and say they hope these next four years further separate the two in the public mind. One source...