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...know about me without your having read a book by the name of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but that ain't no matter. A lot of school- taught folks been talkin' about that story since Mark Twain made it up, about me and Jim floatin' on our raft down that monstrous big river, and Jim escapin' from slavery and me hiding him out. They say I did a big heroic thing in helpin' Jim get free, but that weren't it. Truth is, Jim helped me git free, 'cause if he hadn't made me realize that...
...industry from antitrust laws, a reprieve for timber companies that hold $2 billion in unfulfilled federal contracts, an exemption that would allow beer distributors to set up local monopolies and an antitrust waiver for the National Football League. There was even a bill that would exempt Zeke's Floatin' Bait, which is manufactured by a company in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., from a 10% excise tax. Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including a $500,000 chimpanzee colony for New Mexico State University. Not that the issue is just fish bait...
...Barnett destroy a protest movement by leading a "floatin" in front of a Liberian freighter carrying grain for Royalists in Yemen? Impossible. Will Barnett make a mockery of the Camp aesthetic and win the ice-cold heart of Rosalie by memorizing all the shows of the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour! Improbable. Might Barnett expiate 400 years of white guilt by joining "a group of young white businessmen who had gathered together to back a Negro clothes designer and a Harlem dress store in a new line of maternity clothes called 'Mother Jumpers'?" Unconscionable. Could Barnett win Rosalie...
...Floatin' Cornflake. Unlike Sonny & Cher, they did not drop out of school; unlike Bob Dylan, they did not run away from home. They are New York City-bred college graduates who see their philosophy as basically opposed to that of the hippies. "Why is it I feel compelled to write about this pain I see?" says Simon, who is responsible for all the lyrics and most of the music. "I could split and be free and do whatever I want. I said to myself, well, why don't I? Because I'm here, that...
...they succeed with these tattered themes by understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A." And it ends on a note of tolerant satire: "Old Roger draft-dodger leavin' by the basement door/ Everybody knows what...