Word: givin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plea; "Makes me feel like a girl again/ To run with the married men," the sisters sing, adding one final reflection on wronged wives: "I know these girls they don't like me/ but I am just like them/ pickin' a crazy apple off a stem/ Givin' it to the married men." The Roches' songs, which come out of a very particular and womanly conscience, are feminist after the fact. Says Terre, "I missed the whole new consciousness thing." Her sister Suzzy, 22, adds simply, "We're women who make our own music...
Time to take a little from the world we're givin...
Well that's Joe for ya', all right. Never givin' away his hand, always playin' down his chances. But believe you me, he's pretty damn pleased 'bout bein' 3--0 in the league right about...
...Peeper Paper ("The People Paper"--trade name for Philadelphia's third paper, the Daily News) the other day and that's one time the Mick was right. I mean who really wants broads on the police? What about you're having a fight with the wife and givin' her the back of your hand when the Polack down the street puts the squeal in. You want some bull dyke come chargin' on your property all ready with a swift kick in the lasagnas. No way. Not while I'm mayor...
When the reformatory sessions began, many of the boys agreed with the philosophy of one teen-age felon who insisted that "If I'm not gettin' nothin', I'm not givin' nothin'." But now they share the outlook of another inmate who voices a concept that would have seemed alien to them before they began meeting: that it is important "to respect other people's feelings...