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That's sad, because it's clear that Jagger has worked hard on the lyrics, which are mostly about becoming older and wiser. It seems he is so sick of being the front man for the guitar-driven, anti-utopian Stones that he has thrown too much caution to the wind in embracing milder music. If he had held on to a little more of the Stones' devilish sound, his spiritual satisfaction might be easier to take. But given tunes as syrupy as these, the appropriate response to a song titled God Gave Me Everything can only be a ringing...
...also organized popular birthday parties for his two children—once taking young guests to sit in the cockpit of a private plane, another time bringing a bulldozer to his neighborhood so the guests could ride along as it was driven up and down the driveway...
...products, that the White House will at least be playing ball. (The industry, which has lost 26 companies to bankruptcy in recent years, wanted tariffs of 30-50 percent.) And it's too much for any free- marketeer to hope that the next few months won't see Bush, driven by his unshakable belief in winning West Virginia again, is going to find some way to keep the industry (and the politicians it owns) at least reasonably happy...
Still, true social and political revolution cannot occur without the widespread support of the public, which was not attained until the popularization of rock and roll. Although lacking a distinctive corollary in the art world, early rock and roll still was still driven by the same motivation of avant-garde art: questioning blind adherence to societal norms. What began as a search for personal identity among post-war teenagers resulted in a blow to the sanitized, suburban nuclear family unit of Eisenhower’s America. The resounding popularity of rock and roll icons Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry...
...remembers how “freshman year, at the activities fair, we were so freaked out by the Hasty Pudding guys hounding us to join that we actually ran and hid. Suzanne has certainly gained confidence since then. Being around so many others who are driven to succeed has really galvanized her to put herself in the middle of them...