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...arrangement. Singer Michael Stipe, meanwhile, provides a compelling vocal that aches for carefree youngers years. This is definitely an older Stipe speaking. In Murmur's "Catapult" from 1983, he ponders childhood ("We were little boys/We were little girls...Did we miss anything?"). Now, ten years later, it's early adulthood he recalls ("Hey kids, rock and roll/Nobody tells you where to go") as he laments the passage of time in the chorus ("Maybe you rocked around the clock/Tick...Tock.../Tick...Tock...
...arrangement. Singer Michael Stipe, meanwhile, provides a compelling vocal that aches for carefree younger years. This is definitely an older Stipe speaking. In Murmur's "Catapult" from 1983, he ponders childhood ("We were little boys/We were little girls... Did we miss anything?"). Now, ten years later, it's early adulthood he recalls ("Hey kids, rock and roll/nobody tells you where to go") as he laments the passage of time in the chorus ("Maybe you rocked around the clock/Tick...Tock.../Tick/Tick...
...Ruth loses no time in stating her lifelong position: "I came wrapped in a caul of darkness and anger into Elizabeth's kingdom." Her cousin is, in fact, a preternaturally good child, so Ruth cultivates meanness and petty thievery with gusto. She hides Elizabeth's favorite dolls and into adulthood wears her clothes on the sly. Elizabeth paints (skies only); Ruth toys with starting a publishing imprint (her first book would be a reissue of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary...
...society's reluctance to recognize their existence, bisexuals often face an even more torturous struggle than gays in coming to terms with their identity. Unlike gays, bisexuals lack an established community or culture to help ease the process. For men, the confusion seems to surface during adolescence and early adulthood. Al, 38, of Chicago, recalls that during his troubled college years "there was almost no place I could go where bisexuality was part of the norm." Having "bought into the myth that bisexuality was a political cop-out," he swung between describing himself as straight and gay. But his distress...
These terrorist candies of the 90s are certainly troubling. When today's elementary school set reaches adulthood, we'll have a generation of savage war-mongers who refuse to back down...