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...Kinks. The Kinks used to play very bad tours. Not an occasional crummy concert, but whole tours, rotten in their ntirety. This was because they'd all get drunk and beat each other up onstage. Which was particularly true of the brothers Davies. Ray, older and larger, could be relied upon to smack his brother, Dave, younger and smaller, around numerous stages in equally numerous dank halls across America. No more. Ray has coupled his social insights with his instinctive love of vaudeville as it appeared in English music halls, and transformed his band of drunken louts into a drunken...
Unraveled. Unmoved, Farah had called the bishop a member of the "rotten old bourgeoisie" and a man who is "lolling in wealth." Farah seems to be thoroughly unimpressed by the fact that his company lost $8,000,000 last year, largely because of the strike, and that the price of its stock has plummeted to $10 per share, down from $30 before the walkout...
...reason to justify or condemn the U.S. involvement. On the contrary, we were supposed to be fiercely subjective and we were. Nevertheless, the questions troubled us and if you had asked--as we fought and worked the way we were supposed to--we would have said, "It's rotten; somebody's getting screwed...
...stamps. The growers, who need about 2,000 workers, say the rules are not enforced. Union representatives, in turn, claim that the minimum wage of $1.30 per hour is so low that it is not worth reaching for. If the two sides cannot come together, about $30 million in rotten fruit will soon fall in between them-pulpy proof that the welfare ethic and the work ethic must find some common ground...
...himself "the Walking Zircon," and his customary mental state is one of luxuriation in the wonder of his own phoniness. He is a man of high ability who does nothing. He seeks out degradation and implores the reader to revile him, but secretly he is in love with every rotten atom of himself...