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...life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured by the cloud cover. Go to the dentist, and the procedure is all but ordained: thumbs fill the mouth, the drill starts to whine, and a voice begins to express all those unpalatable political opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...think the essence of the English Beat can be found in "Whine & Grind/Stand Down Margaret." Over a walking-on-eggs reggae/ska rhythm, we hear a sweet sax, a polite guitar and vocals which pleasantly croon: "I see no joy/I see only sorrow/I see no chance/of a bright new tomorrow." Like I said, these guys throw a mean curveball...

Author: By Mitcbell Scbneider, | Title: THE ENGLISH BEAT | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...Eliee's Lysander, are as energetic a pair as they were last season; new faces animate the female roles--Cynthia Darlow as Hermia and Cherry Jones as Helena. Darlow's Hermia thrusts her lower lip out at life with a little-girl pout that is sometimes winning and a whine that's sometimes shrill; Jones is more the robust than the morose Helena, bludgeoning Demetrius with her lust. The four lovers interact with a vigor that sometimes shakes the planks of the set, providing an object lesson in how these roles can both stand out individually and click with their...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Midsummer Journey | 11/15/1980 | See Source »

...YORK--Like a Pentagon flunky delivering the daily body count, Norma Lee stands amid the drifting clouds of hair spray, raising her voice a little so it will carry over the killer-bee whine of the foot-massaging machines. "Sunday--89 reporters groomed, 51 men and 38 women. Monday--131 reporters groomed, more than half of them...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Democracy in America | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...them, and their women, are obsessed with being cowboys. But Houston is a city of crude, not dudes, and so these men dress up in pointy boots, fat belts and straw stetsons to swig beer and suffer the whine of C&W at Gilley's, the biggest nightclub in the world. At Gilley's Travolta manages to fall in and out and in love with a cute kid named Debra Winger. For some reason, their parents don't attend their wedding, which takes place, naturally, at Gilley's. This all purpose saloon reeks of Coors and looks like a Shriners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bursting in Air | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

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