Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know his name is Arok, but you want to call him sir. Your palms grow moist, and the room suddenly seems very small. When you point out with exaggerated amiability that his digital watch is an hour slow, he snaps, "That's Mars time, dummy." He does not suffer mortals gladly...
...Culmann's dire prediction is even partly fulfilled, and some U.S. airlines are financially weakened, the American planemakers that supply them could be hurt. In turn, the nation's balance of payments would suffer. Of all commercial plane sales in non-Communist countries, Boeing rings up about 52%, McDonnell Douglas 28%, and Lockheed 3%. At about $7 billion a year, sales of aircraft, engines and parts abroad are the second largest U.S. export (after food...
...trendy and even desperate as more and more people clamor for attention in a please-notice-me society. It is merely ironic that businesses with names like the No Name Bar and The Chocolate Soup (a children's clothes store) now so proliferate that only an innocent would suffer a double take on learning that an orchestra called The Widespread Depression happened to be performing last week at a nightspot called The Other End. That is in Greenwich Village, where some runners trade at a store called The Athlete's Foot...
Happily I needn't have worried. The Stones are still the most professional and spectacular rock band in the world, and their new album, Some Girls, proves it. So what if they don't suffer as they did 15 years ago? The name of the band is not Mick of Assisi and the Rolling Saints, you know...
Darkness passes the romantic delirium of Born to Run, cuts deeper, lingers longer. The proud prisoners of shore towns, the rod riders and front-porch madonnas, turn up again, but no longer bursting with the same heady spirit. Here the "shutdown strangers and hot rod angels" suffer a sudden, splintering sense of their own settled fates. They crash right up against that darkness in the album's title. There are a lot of victims, like the girl in Racing in the Street, one of Springsteen's best songs, who "stares off alone into the night/ With the eyes...