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...lyrics on Who Are You are as hard-bitten as ever--only the Who would produce two different songs with the title "I've Had Enough." The newer one (the first was on Quadrophenia) reads like an update of "We Won't Get Fooled Again," but the words are even more desperate, the music unsettlingly ambiguous...
...whose neck is bitten by the Roman collar, I can agree with those who sing Blest Be the Tie that Binds...
...high-ranking assistants, W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, had authorized the unlawful surveillance activities; and the Criminal Division in the department elected to proceed with the prosecution of the three principals with the full approval of President Carter. Yet another relic from the Watergate era had bitten the dust, offering some cause for reassurance that the blindfold of Justice was back in place--at least at first glance...
...founder of a refuge for battered women in London, notes that abused men are so good at self-deception that they often refuse to acknowledge the beatings at all. "Mostly they don't see themselves on the receiving end," she adds, "even though they're scratched and bitten or hit by instruments." In fact, she says, many of the men who show up at her center are originally reported as wife beaters, but turn out to be beaten husbands...
...manages to turn that fault into a virtue. Length can lull disbelief and make the unlikely seem familiar. Snitter, for instance, has been the victim of mind-control experiments and consequently hallucinates a fair amount of gibberish: "There's a mouse - a mouse that sings - I'm bitten to the brains and it never stops raining - not in this eye any way." The effect of a terrier doing his impression of the fool in King Lear is at first disconcerting. It grows less so with each appearance, and those who stay for the whole show will find Snitter...