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Remember those home movies your crazy uncle would show at big family events? Everyone would gather round the screen to laugh at Aunt Bertha's swollen thighs, smirk at cousin Damien's antics, and smile at Grandma Smith's sweet girlishness as she shied from the camera's probing lens. Everyone was thrilled and secretly proud and yet vaguely terrified to see themselves caught and fixed on screen...
...That's Why I'm Here, is what isn't there: madness, suicide, drug addiction, disaffection, loneliness, alcoholism, adultery, break-up--in short, the pain that has inspired some of his best songs. The album's front cover features Taylor in a clean white shirt with a big happy smirk on his face, while the back cover shows a grassy field filled with red flowers. The whole affair reeks with healthiness...
That should wipe a smirk off anyone's face. Even a New Yorker...
...Reagan, the meeting was a triumph, and he returned to Washington satisfied that his time in Quebec had been well spent. "You can laugh and smirk," a senior Administration official told U.S. reporters after the summit ended, "but in my view this will go down as the most productive meeting in U.S.-Canadian history." What particularly delighted Reagan was that after years of often strained relations, Canada and the U.S. were once again getting along and working together on mutual defense. Washington has made no secret of its concern about the "nuclear allergy" that recently led New Zealand...
...every Olympics would be an occasion for any participating nation to needle or humiliate any other nation. Medals would be presented, as in the athletic events, but in the embarrathon both winners and losers would be asked to mount the platforms so that the world might jeer or smirk as it chose. Or are we getting desperate...