Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What's your father running on, anyway?" another of the giants asked...
Station To Station could certainly have been composed in a month (much of it resembled "Fame," the hit single off Young American that took Bowie and John Lennon a scant 45 minutes to concoct) by a man suffering from terminal ennui, but I'm not complaining, well, not much anyway. The album is a testament to the efficiency of the Bowie machine. Stripped as he is here of many cherished pretentions (adrogynous messiah, apocalyptic visionary, etc.) and locked into a disco beat, Bowie can still captivate us. It's a creditable and also slightly curious accomplishment...
Epilogue: as he gets back on the press bus, Matthew Russo, Reagan's assistant press secretary rips up kid Franken's press pass, telling him he's really not a reporter anyway...
Whatever excuses might be offered for bribery?Pentagon pressure, foreign extortion, "Everybody does it"?the practice has become intolerable. Tips to customs officials to perform duties that they ought to carry out anyway might be unremarkable ethically, but payments to Cabinet ministers to put a U.S. company's interests ahead of those of their own country are totally immoral and strike at the very basis of democratic government...
...hoping, however, that Taxi Driver will bring her more adult parts. Says she: "The only place I draw the line is nudity." Then, forgetting what the role of Iris was all about, she adds: "Anyway, no one would want to see a 13-year-old take off her clothes." Some day, she says, she intends to play Othello, no less. Coming from Jodie Foster, that is no teeny-bopper fantasy...