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...bought the new album yet, do so now because he will play almost all of it. The best part is when, the crowd joins on all of the old favorites Margaritaville." Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Come Monday," and the cult Classic. "Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw)." Bullet at the Orpheum here two years ago was great, in his own backyard he'll be incredible. Make sure to get there while there's still beer, and when he asks everybody what they want to hear near the end yell "migration" because it's a great song...
...erupts into obscenities. Now all the crew is shouting, and the pilot angrily drops the helicopter closer to the target and orders the second gunner to take all the ammunition. We are completely exposed on one side of the craft, but the pilot wants to fire until the last bullet, and so we circle around the firing zone over and over again, corkscrewing to favor our "good side." The last ammo finally runs through the gun only when the light has gone and the sun is sitting pale on the slope of the volcano...
...conventional terms of winning and losing--they are thus ensured in "the unending process of seeking security through more arms." Frank adds that military men have achieved a psychological assimilation" of the new instruments of mass destruction--to thinkables," a nuclear missile is just a bigger and better bullet. "Emotionally our leaders remain back in the days of spears and clubs." Frank charges...
...spontaneous riff on some people, places and things that have appeared elsewhere in Cheever's fiction. The hero could be (but is not) one of those stubborn old Yankee Wapshots. The settings range from New York City to a declining country village, with the hint of suburban Bullet Parks and Shady Hills sprawling in between. And the plot is a Cheeverian amalgam of unexpected violence and grace...
Faster than a Speeding Bullet...