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the Government has decided that maximising their profit is in the best public interest.
Profit which is, by the way, 89.2 per cent [!] down on last year, "largely due to a $17.1 million fall in advertising revenue..."
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Has anybody got an information on what message the Lincoln students intended to convey ?
Nothing first-hand, but I'd put money on it being no more complicated than "I've just seen Inglourious Basterds."
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For most of us here, the War is something that happened to our parents' or grandparents' generation. For today's Lincoln students, it is one further generation removed, and that extra generation makes all the difference in the world.
Consider what you know about your grandparents. Now consider what you know about your great-grandparents; much, much less, right?
My parents grew up in a household with parents who lived through the War. My grandfather (an aircraft mechanic) was stationed in the Pacific. My parents have friends whose fathers were killed or irreparably damaged, so my parents have some perspective on the War (which I heard about, growing up), whilst I really have none.
As someone said above: to these students, it's ancient history.
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fostering our cultural identity as something other than as a bunch of Ed Hillary mini-me’s
Speaking of whom:
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Let's Active
Cool. I've got to check out the Sneakers sometime.
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That was brilliant. A very young Peter Case in that band.
Tony,
Here's my favourite Peter Case moment; a blistering slice of power pop.The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away [Live At The Whisky A Go Go, 1981]
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I Want to be a Machine
Good stuff, and, coincidentally (or maybe not), rather Space Oddity-esque.
The Nerves, Hanging On The Telephone (L.A., '76) -
When is someone going to invent that concert-going time machine I've always wanted, dammit? I have such plans!
The next best thing:
(Tokyo, '78)
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I'm quite partial to France Gall's Der Computer Nr. 3 (1968).
(Bonus points for an excellent Beatles steal on the bridge.)