Word: glitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Glitter, however, was only one facet of Bowie's early work. The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Alladin Sane were concerned as much with mortality as with kinky sex. Bowie's lyrics reflected a fascination with aging and its immanence. On "Changes" he despairs that "Time may change me/but I can't trace time" and warns "rock'n'rollers" to turn and face the changes for ever they get older. And on "Cracked Actor" he paints a gruesome portrait of superannuated sex--"Forget that I'm fifty cause you just got paid/Suck, baby, suck, give...
...that the Olympic flame has been extinguished for another four years, and the glitter of the gold sufficiently dimmed, it might be appropriate to step back and try to make some sense out of the last two weeks' double camels and missed slalom gates...
...Hope, they are hyping him as a possible successor to another all-American boy, Johnny Carson. Nothing doing, says Chevy. "I have no desire to spend the rest of my life interviewing actors. That's what I'm trying to expose in my writing-all that glitter and pretension...
...that the fantasy turns out to be a dream of Ebenezer Scrooge: volumes shaped like rabbits, turtles-everything but books; "relevant" accounts of crime and strife; the latest data on the making of babies-but little about the meaning of love. Still, along the shelves a few items always glitter-works that will be read and reread long after the backs and covers are coated with crayon, spilled milk, tears and time...
...looking for sympathy, however, and he boils at suggestions that he should retire. "It's tiresome as hell to lose, but I still enjoy the game." He has retreated from the glitter of Manhattan's night life and rents a house in a quiet neighborhood of Garden City, a Long Island suburb. "I've only been to New York City once in the past eight weeks -the traffic's too damn bad," says Namath. But not as rough as the Sunday traffic on the field...