Word: acapulco
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...real treat of the album, however, for Dylan aficionados is the heretofore unrumored, un-bootlegged "Goin' to Acapulco." It is the lament of a somewhat aging rock star who can't get it up the way he used to, but that's o.k., he says, because Rosemary, his faithful groupie-girlfriend, will always be there to take care of him. "She puts it to me/Plain as day/And gives it to me for a song," he brags...
...been "double-crossed now/For the very last time/And now I'm finally free!" In each case, Dylan enunciates a single word so as to give us exactly the opposite impression from what the word actually means. The singer's not gonna have any fun at all in Acapulco, it's just an idea of a vacation that he's garnered from looking through too many magazines and watching T.V. commercials in too many motel rooms...
Again, as in "Goin' to Acapulco," Dylan is acting a part, and there is no actor anywhere better than Bob Dylan. When he asks rhetorically "Why am I always the one who must be the thief?" his voice seeps with the bitterness of a father cast as a villain when all he ever intended was love...
...Acapulco, Mexico...
...executives -including John A. Christensen, a $72,000-a-year vice president-alleging that they had accepted bribes from an Atlanta-based real estate developer to lease inferior sites for shopping centers at inflated rates. According to the complaint, the kickbacks exceeded $100,000, and ranged from trips to Acapulco to a $33,000 stable built on Christensen's farm in Connecticut. The company is asking $5 million in damages from the three men, the real estate concern and Christensen's wife...