Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...White House to grill the President himself, who has pledged to cooperate, and the questioning may also include his wife Rosalynn. But their most withering inquiries will be aimed at a babble-prone, 43-year-old country boy who would be unworthy of such lavish attention except for one fact over which he has no control: he is the President's brother...
...something new" and "Ooooooh, and it's got me moving." In short, it's the Stones finest statement yet of urban rootlessness and mutability, a world where nothing counts unless it's brand-new and fast-moving, a gaseous world, a great nebula, where nothing is complete or permanent except New York's concrete garbage cans, where even "Dance" is only "Part...
...Dance: Part One" is a disco track; and it seems appropriate at this point to write a little in defense of disco. Disco never got much of a press, except from people like Time; Rolling Stone ran a disco issue at the insistence of publisher Jann Wenner, who Jagger once described to Chet Flippo as "that cunt of a boss of yours," but it went over like a suckling pig at Passover. Rock critics have always worn their contempt for disco as a sort of cachet of superior taste, and it's always seemed more than a little unfair, particularly...
Meanwhile, she had been reintroduced to track. A visit to the Boston Marathon freshman year sparked the interest, and led to casual participation on Pappy Hunt's women's track team. She sprinted, high-jumped and did just about everything else except run the distances...
...Lumber Co., a national chain, sells the ultimate do-it-yourself job: kits for designing and building houses practically from scratch. Containing everything except the foundation, plumbing and wiring, they range in size from bungalows to two-story colonials. In just one week this summer, 17 modern pioneers paid an average of $12,000 each to raise their own roofs...