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...which are eminently danceable. The Stones have thoughtfully concentrated these at the beginning of either side, so that, come party time, you won't have to do too much skipping around. Besides the title cut, the best of these are "Dance Little Sister" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," a surprising and crude remake of one of the Temptations' greatest hits. The success of this cut suggests that maybe the Stones, like the Band, might benefit from taking a song-writing hiatus and cutting an album composed primarily of other people's material, as they did at the beginning...
...Thieu aid lobby opened its campaign last March. Its "Committee to Beg for Aid" boasts of a three-star general, a Cabinet member with Washington connections, and a former ambassador to the United States. Thieu has given them over $2 million to wine, dine, and womanize potential Washington supporters of increased U.S. aid. One week after this fact was revealed in the Saigon newspaper Dai Dan Toc, Saigon's Department of Social Welfare announced that it would spend less than $10,000 to relieve the central provinces threatened with famine...
...woman who had worked 16 years in the fields described her experiences in the Bakersfield paper, saying, "The hiring hall bosses would tell us, 'we'll give you an assignment when we feel like giving you one. You can get on your knees and beg...
...huts of Aymara Indians who chew cocoa leaves and eat dried potatoes like their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Ill-clad Indian children sell two joints of marijuana for ten cents behind the 35-story Hilton Hotel in downtown Bogota, Columbia, and recently-arrived mothers from the mountains beg in the shopping district of Lima, Peru, so their children...
...sees them) as Rimbaud, Keats, Shelley and Victor Hugo. In wicked parody of their legends, he kills Jaromil off at 20. The young poet attends a party one cold night and insults another writer, who locks him out of the apartment on a balcony. Jaromil pridefully refuses to beg to be let back in, catches pneumonia and dies of asininity...