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...almost a house on wheels. Which is not too strange, really, because the road is Flip's only real home. "Quite often I feel the tension, and I'll go driving into the desert," he says. On such occasions he keeps a note pad handy to jot down his thoughts. "I don't go to create, I go to relax," he explains. "But I've never gone and not come back with something-a couple of stories, a handful of one-liners...
...Bitch," which sounds a jot like "Live With Me," is a good rock song that opens side two of the album and is also on the flip of the American 45. (In addition to "Brown Sugar" and "Bitch," the British single includes a remake of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock," which is not available in the U. S.) "I Got the Blues" is a good imitation Otis Redding song, but Jagger should know better than to put himself in a position to be compared with Otis...
...well prepared for conferences that some Americans believe that they have rehearsed their speaking parts, like actors in a play. On almost all occasions, the Japanese courteously but firmly steer the conversation to commerce. They are patient and persistent bargainers. Even on a golf course, overseas Japanese businessmen occasionally jot down notes of a conversation between putts...
Sachs called the trial of First Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. "scapegoating," saying, "He may be some kind of homicidal pervert-I don't know-but if he is, the Army picked him to take all the blame. There are a whole jot of people who have done the same shit Calley did and thought it was the best thing for their country...
...then further our amicable relations by all the means in our power, and set an example to those colleges that are yet struggling in outer darkness. If Yale men regard us as a trifle snobbish, a shade supercilious, a jot too conscientious, a tittle quixotic, and ever so little conscious of our own superiority,- let us beg them to bear with us. Although our language be strangely fastidious, our personal appearance impertinently neat, we do not, surely, mean to be insulting; and it is not without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor...