Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives.


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This is unfortunately a serious problem. It is a pervasive problem.
CARL WHITEHEAD
It was because of [Bishop's] abilities to get out and move the puck up the ice.
TIM WHITEHEAD
Ultimately, the teams will help us to develop a truly compelling design for the World Trade Center s...
JOHN WHITEHEAD
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish.
TED WHITEHEAD
He told me three weeks ago not to send anything else.
PAUL WHITEHEAD
What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
ALFRED WHITEHEAD
Yet we still have no idea what happened or where it even started, not even a description of a suspec...
KIMBERLEY WHITEHEAD
Older cars had those old vacuum windshield wiper systems, and when they went bad it was almost impos...
ROBBY WHITEHEAD
Tonight came down to the last whistle and we are fortunate to have advanced. We had our hands full t...
TIM WHITEHEAD
We didn't want to cry wolf. But I don't think the public generally realizes the predicament we're in...
RONALD WHITEHEAD
He might have been the best player among both teams. He is so strong on the puck. He's great at keep...
TIM WHITEHEAD
I would not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without a profound study of t...
A.N. WHITEHEAD
He is a fierce competitor. He loves to compete. When it comes to hockey he wants to win and his team...
TIM WHITEHEAD
His business died overnight. But he just shifted his focus to making power windows for those restori...
ROBBY WHITEHEAD
We had a body shop together, but he decided he wanted to start making the power windows. Conversion ...
ROBBY WHITEHEAD
Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
Bring me a buyer and we will produce them a house in that range. There are plenty of builders in Mid...
GARY WHITEHEAD
It's a really tough job market for people my age. The openings just aren't there. A lot of the emplo...
GARY WHITEHEAD
I'm optimistic about eventually finding something, but it will be another 21 months before the degre...
GARY WHITEHEAD
A lot of these folks can't afford to find a new place that fast.
JANICE WHITEHEAD
Make sure your child is happy where they're going. If they're not happy, usually there is a problem.
JANICE WHITEHEAD
I've wrestled since I was 6 years old. I've gone through some of the most excruciating wrestling cam...
MIKE WHITEHEAD
John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He...
CHARLES W. COLSON
We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should al...
CHARLES C. COLSON
When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Da...
CHARLES W. COLSON
For years in Washington, they've all ended the same way - perjury and obstruction of justice. I don'...
CHARLES W. COLSON
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison
CHARLES W. COLSON
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideolog...
CHARLES W. COLSON
But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in thi...
CHARLES W. COLSON
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, ar...
CHARLES W. COLSON
It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bu...
CHARLES W. COLSON
John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He...
CHARLES W. COLSON
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost ...
CHARLES W. COLSON
It is time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are ...
CHARLES W. COLSON
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. Wh...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibili...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD