Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boss's raps embellishing some of his songs in concert can be shaggy-dog goofs or poignant dramatic reveries. Live/1975-85 offers both. Growin' Up's monologue is addressed to his mother and father, both of whom are in the audience at a 1978 Los Angeles concert ("For six years they have been following me around California, trying to get me to come home"). The River, however, begins with much darker currents, a memory of how "me and my Dad used to go at it all the time, over almost anything." He recalls how his father waited until Springsteen was laid...
Ginsberg said that much of the book deals with "visionary encounters with the dead, such as William Carlos Williams, my mother and my family...
...essay, "On a book entitled Lolita," Nabokov explains how the novel represents "my love affair...with the English language." Having left off writing in his mother tongue, Nabokov, speaking through Humbert, toys with the American idiom, pinpoints his images with le mot juste...
...point, while courting the child's mother, the enchanter sees a glimmer of his fate "silently indicated to him by what looked like a strange naill finger." Sometimes remote, sometimes sinister, sometimes humorous, these imagist puzzles are strangely evocative, as well as tantalizing to decipher...
...mother's song. When I open...