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...contradictory lyrical elements is reinforced in the album's execution. Hardly one second of this album is static or unnecessary. The music either changes or grows more complex. Instrumental breaks are cut short before their completion dissipates the tension they generate. The songs don't even end, but rather fade out or just stop. Cale's vocals are undramatic yet precise-like the non-climactic songs they rechannel their energy back into paths that run through the entire album...
...pointless to speculate too much where Ike and Tina are going, beyond their next album. It's safe to say that they won't fade away, however. With their eclecticism and firm grasp of so many styles, they will never be without an audience. They are too versatile to lose either the R and B connoisseurs or the Las Vegas crowd merely because youth digs them as well. And their recipe for live entertainment, corny or not, will always generate a lot of excitement. I mean, exuberance and Sex are not matters of trendy fashion, are they...
Many black soldiers may become so busy socially and economically that their militancy will fade somewhat when they return. "They have a lot of time on their hands over here to get worked up," said Smith. "A lot of what they think they will do, they just won't. They won't be so closely knit. And they will have girls, wives, families and jobs to worry over...
...gain through his soul; sandpapered it. Mailer wrote of sex in terms of a fifteen-round fight in which red peppers were joyously thumbed into the other fellow's eyes: he saw fucking as vital confrontations. Styron wrote of how sweet and good it had been before the bloom faded, preaching that the bloom would always-surely, definitely-fade. "In all of Styron's work there is the unwillingness to censure aspiring, troubled, and weak humanity," the critic Maxwell Geismer wrote, and then went on to declare that "Mailer has no confidence in human nature...
...Gazette. The Soviet weekly further noted that seat belts are nonexistent, because Soviet light industry has yet to devise a buckle that works. There are also hardly any lane markings on the roads, because the chemical industry has so far been unable to invent a paint that will not fade away as soon as it is applied...