Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, a wave of anger spread across the U.S. (see box). On campuses, Iranian flags were torched and the Ayatullah Khomeini was burned in effigy. In Beverly Hills, an anti-Shah demonstration by Iranian students turned into a near riot, with onlookers shouting obscenities at the Iranians. In New York City, at the close of an Iranian student demonstration, a Columbia University undergraduate shouted: "We're gonna ship you back, and you aren't gonna like it! No more booze. No more Big Macs. No more rock music. No more television. No more sex. You're gonna get on that...
...would jump from planes. Those who jumped and made it would be the heroes, the models and the mentors. Some would jump with aloofness, some would jump to teach, some would jump to die. But all of them, I thought, would have acolytes, attendants and trifles. The wind would wave their scarves, ruffle their jump suits and their hair like no one else's--even dust would look good on them, glistening on their cheeks and leathery necks as if it too came from...
...album, betrayed a group hesitant to stray from familiar territory, unwilling to explore themes beyond the California fast life, unrequited love and witchy, lying women. And after Hotel California Joe Walsh and Randy Meisner went the solo route, leaving the band treading water in the backwash of the New Wave tide. But somehow the Eagles stayed afloat. Somehow they coaxed Walsh back into the flock, incorporated new themes into their music, and experimented with new sounds. And somehow The Long Run turned out to be a surprisingly original and promising album...
...this song is any indication of the Eagles' ability to cut it in the world of New Wave, they'd better drop the course...
...remarkably lucid and even-tempered; McVie, though aggressive, is also reserved and aloof. McVie constantly harps on helpless love ("So go and do what you want/I know that you're happy/don't worry baby, I'll be all right/you'll never make me cry) while Nicks is the tidal wave of passion ready to strike the helpless drowner ("Every night you do not come/your softness fades away/did I ever really care that much/is there anything left...