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...point in La Place de la Concorde Suisse, McPhee describes maneuvers on the outskirts of a small alpine town. While the bullets whizz by above, the townspeople go about their business, not concerned with the activity above. It is hard to imagine a similar scene in the United States. Unlike the Swiss, Americans seem uncomfortable with the idea of the varied role the army can play within a nation's own borders. McPhee suggests that Americans have a lot to learn...
...must have played I Just Can't Stop It at least a half dozen times before even beginning to zero in on the lyrics--they whizz by so quickly. "Mirror in the Bathroom" eloquently mocks self-possession, while the protagonist in "Click Click" is like Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. Suck on this: "Open your mouth/Slide the barrel in/If you don't like it/Just don't do it again." Great poetry! This fascination with power also runs through such songs as "Hands Off ... She's Mine" and "Big Shot," which throws darts at our leaders and points...
Baker writhes, frets, then decides to take a walk. A few steps away from his door he hears a whizz-splatt...
Warren Cooper, dean of financial aid at Boston University, said yesterday the practice of enticing academic whizz-kids away from prestigious schools with merit-based scholarships is "not as uncommon--or as immoral--as some people seems to think...
...Hebuterne. Strafing and a certain dampness." He also presents us with the origins of the widespread use of form letters. British soldiers who tired of writing banal letters home--the only kind that could get by the censors--could write out a "Form A. 2042," also known as the "Whizz Bang" or "Quick Firer." The entire letter was couched in euphemistic phrases, and contained no way of saying one was going to the front. One could only cross out phrases, nothing could be added. A soldier in the hospital had the choice of crossing out "sick/wounded" and "am going...