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...long-distance runner: he was the leader in the 1908 Olympic marathon but was disqualified when his supporters helped him across the finish line. Over the years he produced musical editorials supporting Al Smith and Dwight Eisenhower, opposing Prohibition ("You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea"), defending the gold standard ("Debts," with the couplet "Uncle Sam will be in heaven/ When the dollar goes to hell"), salving the wounds of the Depression ("Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee") and, of course, fighting Hitler ("Till We Hang the Paper Hanger"). In the 1950s, he wrote an anthem for Israel...
...RYAN ADAMS Gold (Lost Highway) There's an aroma of the young, freewheeling Bob Dylan in the organ and acoustic-guitar textures beloved by this urban folk rocker. On his lyric sheet, word games take a backseat to riffs on love, youth and empty pockets. Boomers nostalgic for their hitchhiking days, as well as their children thumbing a ride to the city for the first time, will find something to get weepy over...
...injury, I was furious last week when I received the additional notice that long distance rates are being hiked up by 7.5 percent and that my monthly charge for local service is going up an additional $3 a month. Surely HSTO must be making a fortune off its gold mine racquet of the Harvard phone market...
...calls himself the Commander of the Faithful. Omar had run off long ago, as soon as the Americans started bombing Kandahar, and he hadn't left behind many personal mementos in his bedroom: a poster of the Medina mosque, some syrupy medicine, and the word Allah painted in gold and black on glass...
...rope myself a hubby, Texas-rodeo style.With the mass of people crammed into Tercentenary Theater, I'll stealthily scour the crowds looking for an unsuspecting spectator and pounce like a cat with three hungry mouths to feed. Realizing that my brand new diploma really is worth its weight in gold--ha ha sucka, fools gold that is!--I will leave the fairy-tale land of undergraduate life with a screaming three-headed bundle on my back and a dazed, weakened man dragging behind me, still confused about why he blacked out after the Band began its rendition of Ten Thousand...