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...Like Elvis and Sinatra, Brooks isn't just a singer but an interpreter. He has an uncanny vocal ability to make his material convincing, from the weary amazement of Why Ain't I Running to the matter-of-fact Wrapped Up in You to the bad-boy exuberance of Beer Run. The problem is he never stops selling. He invests as much in trifles like The Storm ("She's drowning in emotions, and she cannot reach the shore") as he does in Pushing Up Daisies, a tune about his mother's death. Either he's blind to his lyrics' weaknesses...
Fight off sleep with beer, prescription medicine. Somehow get issue done...
Delivery men pick up checks. And the cycle begins all over, with more beer...
Frances: a Beacon Hill native and frequent traveler in sweltering, mysterious, Spanish-speaking locales. A drinker of Bombay Sapphire gin and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Seen on a post-Sunday brunch stroll with distinguished parents. Seen on a Thursday-night binge with associates of questionable character at Whitney’s bar. Not surprising, then, Frances’ four-year love affair with FM, the weekly collision of high and low culture, sophistication and vulgarity, mètier and booya. Her commitment unquestioned, her sanity less certain, Frances was our raging, deadline-enforcing maniac, our late-night production ass-kicker...
...could generally occur any time I expected to be in the building for more than an hour after the sun had gone down. I don’t think that was so much a scandal, actually; some of my fellows thought it was stupid and the rest had a beer...