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...with Gleason for ten years. No nostalgia for New York City that he can't appease with daily phone calls to his friends and three visits a year. And no more talk of retirement. "Why should I quit?" asks he, "when I can get a laugh on 'Aw, shut...
...into the honey in the Depression were Tom Bragg and "Sell 'em Ben" Smith. One day Smith picked up a phone to make a call, but Bragg bellowed: "Wait a minute-I'm short of Telephone. Don't give them any business now." Smith shot back: "Aw, I'm shorting Telephone myself, Tom. After I get done with this thing, I pick it up and drag it after me, wire and all. See?" Then Sell 'em Ben yanked the phone off the wall...
...Absolutely Sweet Marie" abounds with line-filler dilutions of meaning, like "well," "you see," "aw, now," and repetitions of line-fragments. It sounds improvised. It is also a coyer baring of private symbols than we've had to take in some time: here (and in "Memphis Blues Again") we get no clue to the significance of railroads though lyrics involve them obsessively. And Dylan's paranoia about petty law enforcement regresses here to the awkwardness of "Walls of Red Wing" (pre-Opus 1). What he integrated into the panoramic lists in "Chimes of Freedom," (Opus...
...first musical composition, some 1,400 Thai musicians put on an all-night concert of his works. The King stayed until 2 a.m., joining in at intervals on the saxophone with his own Royal Band-a congenial group of Thai sidemen, who four times a week broadcast over Aw Saw, the palace radio station...
...Disturb. Doris Day approaches her career as Hollywood's No. 1 lady moneymaker with a fit sense of responsibility toward what amounts to a public trust. When people go to a Doris Day movie, they apparently want to see an ordinary, aw-shucksy sort of a girl with a sunny disposition and a $100,000 wardrobe, who sooner or later wakes up somewhere and mutters something like: "Paul, what happened last night?" Doris never disappoints...