Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cahoots, while an improvement over Stage Fright, still suffers from the same problem. The opening cut, "Life is a Carnival," is the best thing on the album and owes a whole lot to Sly Stone. "Where Do We Go From Here?," "Smoke Signal," and "Shoot Out in Chinatown" are all good rock and roll, but no much better really than "Cracklin' Rosie" or any other Neil Diamond song. "4 per cent Pantomime" starts off well, but gets bogged down by the presence of Van Morrison, who seems drunker than usual and postures absurdly for much of the song. Most...
...used to play Civil War," he says, reminiscing about his childhood in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, "but we could never find anybody willing to be a Yankee. We'd shoot at imaginary enemies...
...assessment: "At this stage there are no political shortcomings in the program that would justify a frontal attack. The critics are going to have to await any flaws." Adds Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "I think we should give the President every support we possibly can. We should not shoot from the hip, and we should forget politics...
Bonfire and Buddha. The Morris prose style modulates effortlessly between a deadpan Mark Twainish narrative of bizarre situations-Tom Sawyer as Easy Rider-and a grave Hawthornesque moral allegory. In the end there is a great fire, and symbols shoot all over the big Nebraska sky. Hence the title of the book, which comes from the Buddha, courtesy of T.S. Eliot. The original Fire Sermon, preached 2,500 years ago, consigned all the physical nature of man-birth and passion and death-to flames. The one that forms the central panel of The Waste Land tries to burn away...
...that he has been neglecting his wife, passionate and unfulfilled Erica. It is usually said of Hailey that he does considerable research and gives his readers a lot of interesting information about, for instance, airports or hotels. This time he has not come up with much. Auto workers shoot H on company time, the reader learns. Never buy a car produced on Monday or Friday (an old counsel) because assembly-line absenteeism on those days results in sloppy work. Auto dealers are sly fellows. Industry executives do not unanimously approve of Ralph Nader. What Hailey neglects to use is astonishing...