Word: tankerous
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While watching Washington pundits perform on TV or reading the views of some think-tanker, the middle manager occasionally finds himself thinking that classic philistine thought: What do they know? They've never had to meet a payroll. And he even finds himself sympathizing a bit with those who find it strange that anyone should care about the views of people who produce nothing but opinions, with no practical consequence, about matters they have no responsibility...
...coat. None of the songs outright suck, but the album's second half is too little musical creativity spread over too much time. "Cool Kiss" and "The Date" combine blinding flashes of white noise with lyrics ("Keep your hands up off of my lips / Capsize just like a tanker / Kill Kill Piss Piss") that are an amateur Freudian's wet dream. "Son" is a gently motoring ode to Weiland's new son, a la "Kooks" off Hunky Dory. "Jimmy Was a Stimulator" is a pleasant piece of glam/new wave with a nonsense lyric and a "Whole Lotta Love"-style freak...
...offer to recycle 23 million gallons of the incendiary substance. The Navy vowed to proceed with its plan to recycle the napalm stored at a California base, but there was no word on the immediate fate of the Indiana-bound shipment. Sure, this is like protesting a gasoline tanker, but pressure arising from the Vietnam-era associations forced Pollution Control Industries to back out of the deal. "It may be a terror weapon, but it's no more dangerous than gasoline," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's flammable, but not explosive." While PCI had planned to turn...
...Harvard and Radcliffe are like a supertanker and a canoe. Harvard is very large, while Radcliffe moves alongside and is a little more maneuverable. But what the supertanker does has more impact on us than what we have on them." With Byerly Hall, that canoe is successfully challenging the tanker...
...Pixar represents pure creation, a whole new era of entertainment that blends good storytelling with computers. "It's so fun at Pixar," he says, reveling in his new role as Hollywood mogul on the make. Apple, on the other hand, requires heavy lifting. "It's like turning a big tanker. There were a lot of lousy deals that we're undoing...