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Which brings us to Lou Reed, who in the age of the legendary dead and dying has the misfortune of being alive and kicking. A misfortune only because, in the tradition of felines and rock stars, Lou Reed must have nine lives. Nine distinct incarnations ranging from junkie to jogger, from wife-beating closet queen to affectionate husband, from Velvet Underground frontman to the man on the Honda scooter who won't settle for just walking. And he's had to watch his various lives fold and unfold in the public eye to varying degrees of interest. But worse than...
...many rock stars who were once heroin addicts have now kicked smack (with an exaggerated sense of self-importance and fanfare) to delve into the pleasures of clean living, none had previously told the story of the vicissitudes of drug-crazed existence quite so blatantly or prolifically as Lou Reed. None wrote a song called "Heroin." None has quit the music business so abruptly, pleading lethal side effects and a litany of near-death experiences...
...students who organized the business are: Labianca, J.B. Backstrom, Reed Maltzman, Andy Osborn, Michael Whitmire, and Darius Zoroufy...
Willis Hawley of Oregon chaired the House Ways and Means Committee, and Reed Smoot of Utah headed the Senate Finance Committee. Both were fiscal experts with more than 20 years of service on Capitol Hill. But, responding to pressure from organized labor and some sectors of industry, they transformed what was to be an agricultural measure into a comprehensive increase in tariffs...
...controversial Harkin bill, which is also known as the "Farm Policy Reform Act of 1985," while the Charlie Daniels Band held down the conservative wing with banner-waving ditties like In America, which offered the observation that Lady Liberty "may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell." Lou Reed pointed up the irony of rock, freshly politicized, being attacked for excessive raunch, by recalling "those people who are trying to censor records" before launching in- to his classic Walk on the Wild Side. Live Aid may have been slicker and more elaborate, but FarmAid had the edge musically. There...