Word: couplet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leftist demonstrators of May 1968: Leading the demonstrations were boys under 30 years of age who were imitating their elders of the Popular Front. The difference was that their elders knew all the words to the Internationale, not just the first couplet. It is always comic (or sad, as the case may be) to see so many young people affirm their personal!ties and free themselves from the society of adults by imitating adults...
...commercial no-sells. His sound is reminiscent of Lou Reed, but with an essential divider: Where Reed's influences lie in jazz and his vocals tend to be experimental (sometimes to the point of irritating), Jeffreys thrives on another form of Black music--reggae. On One-Eyed Jack, a couplet declares: "Here comes the One-eyed Jack, sometimes White, sometimes Black; Jeffreys uses his mulatto heritage to make the best of both worlds, bringing together white and Black musicians and music. The reggae-pop fusion leaps off his discs in a style similar to Graham Parker...
...Time Waits for No One" is the second part of a pair, and showcases Watts' sweatless yet perfect drumming. With ample self-deprecation. Jagger clumsily explores the theme of mortality in what turns into a bastardized Shakespearian sonnet. The final couplet of iambic pentameter is repeated several times too many: "Time waits for no one, No favors has He: /Time waits for No One./ And he won't wait...
...some of the evening's most comical moments and is especially funny in "You Gotta Get A Gimick." He leaps out on stage in a tuxedo and a red tasseled loincloth embroidered with gold. Lunging left and right, he quotes Shakespeare as he bumps and grinds to emphasize each couplet...
Frank Piegaro, sporting pipe, dark-rimmed glasses and an aura of klutziness, and the demurely attractive Marcia Mitzman, are well cast as the traditional innocent victims--the Denton, Ohio couplet of Brad "Asshole" Majors and Janet Weiss (as in "Vice...