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...barbers posted anarchist placards by their chairs announcing that they were no longer slaves. The signs of class he so detested in his own country had disappeared: "Except for a small number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all. Practically everyone wore rough working-class clothes, or blue overalls, or some variant of the militia uniform. There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting...
...Turks accustomed to their country's tradition of rough-and-tumble politics, the election campaign was a strangely sedate affair. Candidates were not allowed to hurl accusations at each other or criticize the regime. Political wall posters and graffiti were banned, and party members could display their loyalties only with discreet lapel pins. Virtually all politicians who had held elected office prior to the 1980 coup, including former Prime Ministers Bülent Ecevit and Siileyman Demirel, were forbidden to run. More than 500 of the candidates for seats in parliament were stricken from the ballot without explanation...
Head Crew Coach Harry Parker said the race is perennially a rough indication of how well the team will compete in the spring season with local teams, but not with those from outside the Boston area...
Though the game is supposed to be a light hearted end to a laugh season, the Bulldogs swam out seeking revenge from three earlier defeats at the hands of the nationally ranked Crimson aquamen. Conscious of their losing streak, the Elis played a rough game of punch and grab from the first whistle...
From tavern music, Trio then moves onto early fifties rock with a deadpan cover of "Tutti Frutti." Unfortunately, what Trio (as well as other synthopop groups) doesn't understand is that by taking the ragged, rough-shorn mania out of early rock 'n'foll, they take out its heart (and its greatness). Covers like "Tutti Frutti" don't reinterpret the originals; they lobotomise them. Trio fares a little better with "Ich Lieb den Rock'n' Roll" because it's a little faster paced, although the group should learn that power riffing does not equal energy...