25 years ago in reason."I expect to read any day now that the cannon blasts should be deleted from the 1812 Overture because prolonged exposure to such blasts has been linked with damaged tympanic membranes tympanic membrane n. See eardrum. Tympanic membrane A structure in the middle ear that can rupture if pressure in the ear is not equalized during airplane ascents and descents. and anti-social behavior among laboratory animals. Moreover...if all orchestra parts were transposed trans·pose v. trans·posed, trans·pos·ing, trans·pos·es v.tr. 1. To reverse or transfer the order or place of; interchange. 2. to a single piano score, the cost-effectiveness of the piece could be greatly increased with the savings passed on to the music consumer." Peter Fasolino, "F.A.N.S. (Further Adventures of Nader's Sophists Sophists (sŏf`ĭsts), originally, itinerant teachers in Greece (5th cent. B.C.) who provided education through lectures and in return received fees from their audiences. The term was given as a mark of respect. )" "Persons who relyon the Supreme Court test that something is obscene only if it has no redeeming value are 'depraved, mentally-deficient, mind-warped queers,' the Utah Supreme Court The Utah Supreme Court is the state supreme court of Utah. It has final authority of interpretation of the Utah Constitution. The Utah Supreme Court is composed of five members: a chief justice, an associate chief justice, and three justices. said in upholding a Salt Lake City obscenity obscenity, in law, anything that tends to corrupt public morals by its indecency. The moral concepts that the term connotes vary from time to time and from place to place. In the United States, the word obscenity is a technical legal term. In the 1950s the U.S. ordinance." Bill Birmingham, Brickbats "Nobody...is giving a completely satisfactory factual answer to the question [of whether the Soviet Union is a threat)-although I'm not satisfied that there's no threat emanating from the Soviet Union....I think that what we're going to have to get down to is a hypothetical question--if there is a threat, what to do about it?" Earl C. Ravenal, interview |
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