Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundred years ago most 16 year-olds were too immature even to consider a full-time job or marriage. Now they are physiologically almost ready for these responsibilities, but are still stuck in the high schools they have outgrown. No wonder they listen to Motley Crue. Our educational system has become perversely destructive; that which was designed to foster growth is stunting it instead...
...fine form tonight, even if the same thing cannot be said for some of his would-be stars. At times he's a campy wonder, flouncing a hip to announce, "Honeee, I've had my fun. I've been uptown at the Apollo, don't you know?" At other moments he seems to share the crowd's delight at the ineptitude of the worst performers. "So that's how they sing in Georgia," he sniffs, after a young man who'd driven all the way from Atlanta falls to pieces at center stage...
...something that we haven't heard. Does he plan to release all 10 tracks on Bad as singles? It may mean that he's been having trouble coming up with ideas lately, because artists usually put previously unreleased songs on the backs of singles. You have to wonder what he did in the four years between albums...
...wonder if Michael Jackson is a fan of the poet Lord Byron, who used to use the skull of a dead friend as his drinking container. Byron also wanted the skull of the poet Percy Shelley after Shelley drowned, but couldn't get it. Come on Michael, I'm sure there are stores in your neighborhood that sell other types of drinking containers. I'm sure they're cheaper...
...light of its success, finds itself as the oppressor. The recent crisis has dramatized the plight of Palestinians living in the occupied territories and their valid claims for statehood. Liberal Jews watching West Bank scenes on TV can't help but sympathize with the Palestinians, and wonder why they should exempt Israel from the standards they hold for the United States...