Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rating system, you may then in fact not see certain records with certain ratings in the stores or hear them on the radio." Jackson Browne wonders if his albums could get rated P for political, or whether such exercises in innocent hedonism as Rosie and Redneck Friend would be slapped with...
...behaving oddly. He rips up Susan's copy of Saul Bellow's novel Herzog. He pays a call on his mother and hurls an ashtray into the TV set. He tells Stanley that Old Testament patriarchs are spying on him. Stanley phones Cliff Wainwright, a doctor and an old friend, and asks for help with Steve: "I'm afraid he's mad." This judgment is confirmed by Dr. Alfred Nash, a crusty old psychiatrist who examines Steve and diagnoses acute schizophrenia. Nash asks the father about mental illness elsewhere in the family, and Stanley opines that ex-Wife Nowell...
Less conspicuously, Michael J. Schwartz '87 of Eliot House and an unidentified friend waded into the water in a failed attempt to reach the Weld Boathouse docks...
Spider Woman turns on Molina's love for Valentin. Without giving too much away, the pair's involvement results in a kind of personality transfer. Molina, upon release from prison, sheds his early effiminate ways to become a classical hero, sacrificing himself for the ideals of his friend. Valentin drifts off into fantasy, easing the pain of another police beating by dreaming of a deserted island and his girlfriend...
...most engaging tale is "Fish Shop," which recounts a teenage Pete's frustrating romance with a sleazy girl named Fiona, who may or may not be the cousin of Pete's unsavory friend Bonzo. Already an aspiring songwriter in Acton, Pete tries to distinguish himself from the sordid company of Bonzo and his thieving friends. It is finally his relationship with Jaco, the owner of a fish-and-chips shop and a former rocker, that redeems him by reminding him of the palliative qualities of making rock music...