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...crumbling on the inside from psychic wounds too deep ever to heal, comes to stand for America. But the record is not without its characteristic humor. Springsteen's writing has seldom been as fleet ("Early north Jersey industrial skyline I'm a all/ set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime"), and he is the only writer around who can get a good, funny love song out of a date where the lovers eat fried chicken from Bob's Big Boy and wipe their fingers on a Texaco road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Against the American Grain | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...Frog Boy, and Giant Hong Kong Rats, and a "gen-ewe-ine female cannibal," ominously billed as Zoma the Depraved. And, of course, there is the terrible, eternal Alligator Lady: "She walks, she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile, a leapin', screamin', creepin', crawlin' mawnster! She's eleven feet lawng and she's alahv...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Fair: She Crawls on Her Belly Like a Reptile | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...honorable man," explained the Governor. "All I had to do was threaten to ruin him." Then he persuades a left-wing newspaper editor to oppose the bill so that it will be more palatable to the conservatives, who are "all stirred up and worried about taxes and socialism and creepin' statesmanship." Fenstemaker gets his bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fenstemaker for President | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...taut I taw a puddy-tat a-creepin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What the People Want | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...really fond of lice. Last week the Lancet, British medical weekly, put in its two-pennyworth-a diatribe against the louse which rivaled Robert Burns's "ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Louse Criticized | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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