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...Grecian-style gown -- a fairy-tale princess dressed by Woolworth's. Her monologues alternate between airy twittering (she refers to herself as the "goddess" and the "petite flower") and truck-stop sarcasm. To the guy who comes on to her in a punk-rock bar, she growls, "I was lookin' for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain." Feminist frustration is mixed with existential nuttiness: "You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic . . . just because she lives in your body." Redeeming all this from idle perversity are hints...
...Wahter ya'll lookin' at, boys? She ain't mah neighbor's wife or nothin'... where's that dern stage...
...Chicago club, an upscale crowd got joyously behind the heavy beat and the Duane Eddy- style guitar rumble of Earle's band, even as they paid respectful attention to such back-against-the-wall Earle lyrics as "I hit the beer joints every Friday night/ Spend a little money lookin' for a fight/ It don't matter if I lose or win/ 'Cause Monday I'm back on the losin' end again." That has always been one of the neatest tricks in country, writing about the losing end and coming out a winner, and the fact that Earle can carry...
...another one. Praise God." In Clarksdale, White got a trim from Barber- Musician Wade Walton, who told the story of catching a fox. "They're very sly. They don't make nice pets. You can't train 'em. I had him under control, though, long as I was lookin' at him. I named him Chicken...
Certain members of their ranks, perhaps eager to prove their manhood in some heavy-metal courtship ritual, have the habit of inviting members of the Harvard community, myself included, to relatively unarmed combat. Seldom a week goes by without some Twisted Sister fan sneering "Lookin' sweet, babycakes," at me, or trying to slamdance me off of the sidewalk...