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...years earlier. Their three-ring extravaganza in a vaulted coliseum whose ceiling receded into darkness hyperstimulated the senses of a ten-year-old. Brightly clad acrobats, new smells, band music and peanuts demanded simultaneous attention. To get back to my seat, I parted the madding crowd by holding my cotton candy out in front and marching straight ahead...
Every song on the album is well worth repeated listenings. "Prodigal Daughter (Cotton Eyed Joe)" is a quiet country number about the double standard accorded to men and women and about pregnancy and abortion: "Look, here comes a prodigal son/ Fetch him a tall drink of water/ But there's none in the cup/ because he drak it all up/ Left for a prodigal daughter/ Singing, Oh Cotton Eyed Joe/Had not've been for the Cotton Eyed Joe/I'd have been married a long time ago," The sad harmonies match the pain and irony of the song without being overdone...
...William Cotton Damon could not list these sports as hobbies, and he apologized: "His type of business calls for all the physical exercise any man needs. So he has never had to learn golf...
...liberal in two senses: with a small l in that his sensibility is humane and broad-minded (last month he went to Chicago and Detroit at his own expense to do free shows for the unemployed and the homeless); with a capital L in that he doesn't really cotton to conservative Republicans ("I mean, these kids are 26, they're Republicans, and they own a Lincoln Town Car. Not even a Fiat...
...Beijing cotton mill, workers have a problem: the factory quota of 10 free condoms a month -- for married employees only -- is not sufficient for their bedtime needs. In fact, the world's most populous society is facing a crisis of condoms. China's 7 million users, more than double the number of eight years ago, say there are just not enough prophylactics to go around...