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...sake never get soft, baby/ No ifs or buts/ Go on and kick him in the guts/ Go on and kick him in the guts. ") to Throw Out the Lifeline-Soul Overboard. By turns, the music is astringent, lyrical, opulently erotic and as jazzily smoky as a 1920s saxophone...
Next year the historic rink, built in the early 1920s, will be replaced by a new 3500-seat arena which will put greater distance between the players and spectators. In the past, Davis's small, compact size has provided Big Green boosters with unique logistic advantages for displaying their dissatisfaction with visiting skaters...
...mother country. Abuse of the economic and political power by the oil companies was not the sole cause of the recent quadrupling of world oil prices, but the industry has moved to suppress the entry market. The discouragement of synthetic fuel research has been industry policy since the 1920s, and has caused a tremendous waste of American natural resources and an accretion of wealth and political power to our foreign oil suppliers...
...Black Jack") Pershing. While there, Angleton courted and married a beautiful Mexican girl of 17. On returning to Boise, where their first son, christened James Jesus, was born in 1917, Angleton pére established himself as a star salesman for the National Cash Register Co. In the 1920s he took charge of the company's European operations. In 1933 he bought the firm's franchise for Italy and moved his family to Milan and later to Rome, where they lived in a handsome old villa. For years he headed the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy...
AROUND ABOUT 1966, when Prince produced and directed Cabaret, things begin to liven up. What drew him to the play, he explains, was "the parallel between the spiritual bankruptcy of Germany in the 1920s and our country in the 1960s." At the first rehearsal, Prince showed the actors a photograph of "a group of Aryan blonds in their late teens, stripped to the waist, wearing religious medals, snarling at the camera like a pack of hounds." The cast placed the picture in pre-war Germany. Actually, Prince pointed out ominously, it was a gang of toughs fighting the integration...