Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while technology races ahead, history slows to an incremental crawl. Nuclear weapons may eventually make it possible for history to race ahead--imagine, say, the Palestinian Liberation Organization or the Irish Republican Army secreting nuclear bombs in suitcases. But it is no profundity to note that, for the moment, atom bombs have slowed the possibility of significant world changes to a slug's pace...
...imminent energy crisis. His solution: emergency methane production. Instead of distributing surplus cheese to the hungry, the Administration, according to Thunderberg, should provide baked beans. William Allen Camps warned that an enemy power has been tampering with the weather to cut off the U.S. food supply. One reassuring note was sounded by Larry Harmon, a.k.a. Bozo the Clown. Immediately after his inauguration, he said, he would go to Moscow fully dressed as Bozo and wheedle Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko into a nuclear freeze. Or Tastee-Freeze. Or whatever...
Finally, a brief note on the summer. I spent three months in the capital of the free world and had to drive to Baltimore in order to see a ball game...
That's the only slow song on the album, though. The rest of the songs, led by Hal Shows's twangy guitar licks, are hard-edged rockers, firmly molded in traditional American rock'n roll (note, for instance, the main riff in "Kate Lit a Fire.") Although parts of the songs might sound like country rock, 1950s rock or ever 1960s psychedelic (the slightly distorted vocals in "Race Wars"), Persian Gulf is impossible to pigeonhole. Their music goes beyond its influences; they have their own unique sensibility...
...Chinese adaptation of the MiG-21. The foreign observers had not missed much. Although China has the second-largest number of combat aircraft in the world (after the Soviet Union), most are either obsolete or obsolescent. The H-6, for example, China's only bomber of note, is based on a 25-year-old design, has a limited range (less than 3,000 miles) and is not capable of penetrating a sophisticated air-defense network. So far, China has been unable to develop either an effective modern fighter-bomber with nuclear-delivery capability or a technically sophisticated fighter...