Word: style
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mullah's power was vividly demonstrated last week when one of his personal spokesmen, Mehdi Bazargan, 61, traveled to Khuzestan to relay Khomeini's back-to-work order. Bazargan was welcomed in regal style. Wherever he went, he was protected by burly oil workers who muzzled and bodily removed hecklers from his audiences. Local mullahs appeared constantly at Bazargan's side. "I have not come here as a strikebreaker," said Bazargan unnecessarily, since fealty and brute force had given him the most receptive of audiences...
...money and you sure don't get a dissident." Brill understands as well as anyone the litanies of corruption, intimidation, and dictatorial control by Teamster bosses that can turn the Teamsters into dissidents. But at the same time, Brill entertains few illusions about the power of American Dream-style prosperity, on the order of $28,000 a year, to undercut reform and maintain the status...
...many great songs so fast, and record them so well. This Year's Model added an organ to Costello's instrumental mix, but kept the clean, direct sound that delivered his catchy hooks so well. It remains his best album; every song is classic rock and roll in a style critics had given up years ago for lost...
LAMENT IF YOU MUST the end of Elvis Costello's youthful spontaneity, the two-minute rockers flowing endlessly from his pen and mouth. At least he hasn't lost his energy and style--he's just turned them in a slightly different direction. Whether he goes off the deep end in future albums remains to be seen...
...application for admission to Harvard College. Now he is sending notes to the Admissions Office about a woman ice hockey player he is trying to recruit for the team he coaches. The athlete finds that he has picked up many habits of those who coached him. The style, the techniques, the sayings. And he finds he does the same things he said he'd never do if he were coach. And he finds that the players have plenty to say about him just as he had to say about his coaches. And he finds that ten years later, nothing...