Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...rations under both tropical and arctic conditions and even on generals at the Defense Logistics Agency, who were not told that they were being served MREs in the dining hall and allegedly didn't notice any difference from their ordinary fare. But that report is pretty hard to swallow...
Music like this won't seem all that hard to swallow for New York audiences accustomed to the freakish, but will Devo play in Peoria? Actually, Devo comes from Peoria--or, to be more precise, from Akron, which is probably worse. At least the band thinks so. Life in places like Akron--the factory routine, the Big Macs, the repression of natural instincts--may not literally "de-evolve" people, but it probably induces the social equivalent. The scientific basis for de-evolution seems pretty slim, but if you ignore the theory's crackpot side and think...
...save Savages. Trevor Barnes's West dominates all the other actors with his fine mellifluous voice throughout his interesting performance. Horwitz as the revolutionary Carlos almost overcomes his hopelessly shallow part, although he occasionally stumbles over a Spanish accent that sounds too patently bogus for the audience to swallow. And Don Pullam comes up with a truly excellent performance in his one scene as an irredeemably culture-bound idiot-missionary bringing civilization to the heathen. The tribe of otherwise Stone-Age Indians singing "Yes, Jesus Loves Me"--in harmony--must be seen to be believed...
...rescue, the Administration also showed a sense of style and timing in economic policy that it had never before displayed. By keeping their mouths shut, officials managed to spring the announcement just when it would do nearly maximum damage to antidollar speculators. And the President demonstrated commendable willingness to swallow bitter medicine that he had long put off taking. But that ought to be only the start...