Word: coupleteer
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...protests are aimed at the U.S., a group of Communist youths stopped last month outside the Soviet embassy in Rome to shout, "Comrade Brezhnev, cannons are useless, revolution is made by the masses!" Many of the placards at Rome's big Oct. 24 rally carried the rhyming couplet, Dalla Sicilia alia Scandinavia, no alia NATO e al patto di Varsavia (From Sicily to Scandinavia, no to NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...sententious liberalism is undiminished; his antique Midwestern vocabulary ("hen fruit," "on the fritz") is intact; and if his optimism is a bit white at the temples, it still goads him on. But Reinhart ultimately comes to believe that life's meaning can be boiled down to the profound couplet: "Nothin' says lovin'/ Like something from the oven." The transformation has affected his creator as well. The tortuous and arcane language Berger displayed in Neighbors has been effectively streamlined. It now breaks for self-examination: "It was ridiculous that I lived almost half a century trying to measure...
...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...