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...have disappointments." His songs, which he characterizes as being mostly about "survival, how to make it through the next day," are written in bursts. "I ain't one of those guys who feels guilty if he didn't write something today," he boasts. "That's all jive. If I didn't do nothing all day, I feel great." Under all circumstances, he spins fiction in his lyrics and iscareful to avoid writing directly about daily experience. "You do that," he cautions, "and this is what happens. First you write about struggling along. Then you write about...
...diana ross had to get an afro wig pushed every Black singer into Blackness and negro entertainers into negroness you couldn't jive when she said "you make me/feel" the blazers had to reply "gotta let a man be/a man" aretha said "when my show was in the lost and found/you came along to claim it" and joplin said "maybe...
Wherever he is and whatever he is eating, King comes on like a force of nature. With a mixture of grandiloquent rhetoric ("I cannot be castigated by accusation and invective") and jive ("I like to make deals that give me my money and my honey at the same time"), King loves to hold forth on anything from capitalism to existentialism. Over his desk he keeps an incongruous pair of portraits: an original of Ali by LeRoy Neiman and a print of Rembrandt's Aristotle contemplating the Bust of Homer...
...Americans like myself who, while we sympathize with the sufferings of the Jewish people under tyrants from Torquemada through Hitler, do not feel that the U.S. is obliged to guarantee the territorial integrity of Israel. Don't give us any more of that "because it is right" jive. I don't want my son dumping his guts on the Negev sand in the interests of Zionism, and I think most Americans feel the same...
Mother is joined by the group that forms the heart of Cher's fan club-girls who are sub-teen and even younger. For them she is, in the current phrase, "jive." Cher proves that at least one American dream lives: she gives evidence that show biz can still reach out among the adolescent millions and-with a little luck and a lot of hype-transform a mildly talented young woman into a hot, multimillion-dollar property. And that the chosen one gets to have inch-long fingernails for a trademark, if she wants...