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This week, as the cry "Play ball!" heralds America's ode to spring, how tempting it is to avert our eyes from the business side of baseball. How we want to believe the game on the field is what counts, not the internal problems of a $1.6 billion entertainment industry...
Will the time come when an American songwriter, seeking to capture the essence of France, pens a lyrical ode to Le Burger King or McDonald's? Will the Hemingways, the Sartres and the Picassos of the next century debate ideas while dining out on le hamburger and le Coca-Cola? The scenario is hardly farfetched. For on the street corners of Paris, and in provincial cities from Lille to Lourdes, le fast food is muscling out bistros at a dizzying rate...
Baez also played plenty of old favorites with newfound verve, including her chart-topping hit "Diamonds and Rust" and her joyous ode to life, "Gracias a la Vida." She had the audience clapping and joining in the chorus of "The Night Old Dixie Came To Town...
Then there's the album, Erotica, which includes "Where Life Begins," an ode to oral sex that gives new meaning to "Parental Warning Advisory: Explicit Lyrics." How come I have this dreadful feeling that "Where Life Begins" is your next single? The ensuing public riots would certainly catapult you into First Amendment martyrdom, which, I suppose, is what you're after...
Maybe Pushkin wouldn't have written on ode to the Golden Arches. But I'm perfectly happy shelling out my 109 rubles (and rapidly rising) for a cheeseburger, coke and fries. One dollar for a few tastes of home...