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...offers both. Growin' Up's monologue is addressed to his mother and father, both of whom are in the audience at a 1978 Los Angeles concert ("For six years they have been following me around California, trying to get me to come home"). The River, however, begins with much darker currents, a memory of how "me and my Dad used to go at it all the time, over almost anything." He recalls how his father waited until Springsteen was laid up in bed after a motorcycle accident, then brought in someone to cut his son's long hair. Bruce said...
...viruses that have plagued human beings through the ages, few have cast darker shadows or proved more formidable than the one that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The current AIDS death toll of 15,000 in the U.S. seems small compared with some of the scourges of old. But no cure or vaccine is in sight, and the figure is expected to rise to nearly 180,000 in five years. By that time, predicts U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, 145,000 Americans with AIDS will need health and other services costing between $8 billion and $16 billion annually...
Fisher, with hair somewhat darker than one would expect on a man of 58, spoke solemnly about coming up to Grossinger's as an untried singer: "I was sent here to become 18." As he reminisced, a young cameraperson arrived and, setting up her equipment, asked the speaker's identity. "Carrie Fisher's father," she was informed...
Peretz's pal showed a darker side when he took his Cabinet position. He immediately announced support for a multibillion-dollar cut in student aid, a stance he has strengthened in the past 20 months. Supporters of educational equality jumped on Bennett because they feared a two-tiered system of higher education: Ivy College for the rich, State U. for the poor. This was the same Bill Bennett, who as the head of NEH, had refused to comply with an affirmative action decree from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...exorcism. There is a part of us that needs to vicariously exorcise the darker side of our feelings. You can hold all this stuff inside and then do something like Charles Whitman at the Texas tower...