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...assumed that every viewer has the lyrics deep enough under his pop-cultured hide that they are aroused just by the melody? Then Faith must sing it again--now translated into English--while alone in the bathtub, choked up by pain which is merely cheapened by rhyme. These banal songs are not merely the underpinnings of the sensibilities of these characters, but, sadly, the only form in which they can express themselves. Even when she's not singing. Faith utters profoundly empty phrases such as. "You helped me grow from a girl into a woman... I sang all the music...
...beautician training center, and congratulates everyone on the jams and pickles?all bottled there. Mrs. Khalil points out "this and this and this"?until the two of them make a full circle and return to where the little children are packed in a classroom, shouting out a rhyme that sounds like "Ring-Around-a-Rosy." Their desks levitate with the noise. At the side of the room opposite the door sits Hilda, bouncing with the others. She sees the grownups and waves. Then she makes her fingers into the sign...
...shaped house/ There lived a wee maid and a mouse./ The mouse was fat, the maid was thin./ The house was new-they'd just moved in." So begins the shaggy-mammal story The Maid and the Mouse and the Odd-shaped House (Dodd, Mead; $9.95). Told in rhyme as infectious as the prescriptions of Dr.Seuss, the tale comes complete with the kind of conclusion that dissolves children in laughter at every telling. The house, it turns out, is more than odd-shaped, it is cat-shaped, complete with legs, whiskers and a roar that does not abode well...
...Wojciech Jaruzelski who's quite soon Premier-less. John Dowling will sing untroubled ditties, Once Mendonca and Herrrmannn clear his life of committees. Joe Restic will travel o'er hill and o'er dale, To finally score some points against Yale. Tis too bad that Hubel won't quite rhyme with Nobel; Still for him, Nico and Wiesel a Swedish Noel...
...seems a case in point. Four dead Yankee Catholics and everyone noticed. "Military advisers," a phrase that sounded like Vietnam, and everyone noticed. "No Draft, No War, U.S. Out of El Salvador" was the most popular chant during Harvard's mid-March demonstration, perhaps for more than its pleasing rhyme scheme...