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...this barren wasteland. Even tough acacia trees wither and die in the unceasing glare of the Ogaden's hostile sun. Suddenly the car rumbled to a stop. "Look over there," said the guide, Mohamed Heeban, gesturing toward a clump of thornbushes along the bank of a dried-up stream. "That is Karraro, the city under the trees...
...January 23-30 Forbert skips randomly from the "plain on the old runway," to "drinking beers in the honky tonk," to riding out to a country bridge," then asks "where am I when the preacher speaks?" If the attempt is impressionistic or stream of consciousness, the result is complete confusion. This song also epitomizes forbert's lyrical ineptitude. Forbert doesn't include a sheet of lyrics with his album, and with such profundities...
...nowhere, and neither, as far as he can tell, does his life. One night, appalled at the prospect of another TV dinner and more wasted hours sitting in front of the tube, he runs blindly away and somehow finds himself in a verdant spot, drinking water from a storybook stream...
...They stream in by the thousands lugging shopping bags and suitcases filled with silver spoons, tea sets, candle sticks, gold rings and bracelets-anything that can be sold for its precious metal value and melted down. Almost everywhere, people rush to barter away their gold and silver bullion. In London uniformed guards admit long lines of sellers one or two at a time into the precincts of Johnson Matthey & Co., metal dealers, while tough-looking street traders sidle up to impatient standees. "Are you sellin', luv?" coos one, whipping out brass scales and rolls of pound notes. On Manhattan...
...daily grind of the offensive is both tiring and obscurely humiliating. It is impossible to watch the nightly news on network television without being treated to a stream of 30-second treatises on hemorrhoids, tampons, feminine deodorant sprays and constipation. "I want to talk to you about diarrhea," says the earnest pitchman. T shirts, sweatshirts and bumper stickers proclaim their aggressive little editorials. Some are mildly funny (a woman's T shirt, for example, that says so MANY MEN, so LITTLE TIME). But often they are crude with a faintly alarming determination to affront, even sometimes to menace. They...