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...strong social bite, Griffith's best songs conjure up a series of four-minute worlds, miniature but universal brushes with blind fate, transient love and life's harsh realities. In Trouble in the Fields, struggling Okie farmers battle the farm depression of the early '80s, "when the bankers swarm like locusts out there, turning away our yield." Lookin' for the Time tells of a forlorn streetwalker who dreams of the day when she can afford to let the cruising "limos just slide...
...card and driver's license. So she traded her Hermes scarf for some urban camouflage -- in this case, a gabardine pantsuit -- and went shopping in MacArthur Park, a crime-infested mini-mall for phony immigration documents near downtown Los Angeles. Never mind that the patrician politician went trailing a swarm of agents in dark suits; the fake IDs were hers for the asking. "They would have cost anywhere from $10 to $60," she says, "and I could have had them within the hour...
...Convention. Dirt Rag is a service zine for dirt bikers that lists the sport's contests and teaches readers how to make spiked ice tires for the winter. Chuck glorifies trailer- park food -- such dishes as Armour Potted Meat Food Product; and FishWrap publishes poetry like Craig Thompson's "Swarm," which includes the line: "Splattered on the windshield, a thousand gnats struck low by physics...
...defense, as well as to end speculation about some of the purported evidence. The prosecutor, for instance, cleared up one particularly gripping misconception: there is no bloody ski mask that might link Simpson to the crime, as was widely reported. Such errors are not surprising, given the swarm of media that has descended on L.A. Just how closely is this ordeal being covered? In a private, quiet conversation with deputies, Simpson complained about his jail-cell conditions and asked not to be returned. "I'll do anything to stay out of that cell," he said. The tete-a-tete...
Early on there was already a winner in the war, whose triumph will be unaffected by whatever the politicians or soldiers decide. It is the victory of disease. Sanitation is impossible; typhoid, dysentery, cholera are all menacing the refugees, especially the children. Malarial mosquitoes swarm above the swamps. As the rainy season continues in the mountains, the dry cough of pneumonia and tuberculosis echoes through the camps. One Red Cross doctor has commandeered a partly built breeze-block structure and roofed it with blue plastic sheeting to make a hospital. More than 70 patients with bullet wounds and 100 others...