Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with any country and western product, "Old Ways" is a few nuggets wrapped in a heap of simple-minded fluff. But Young makes no apologies. Rather, as in "Once an Angel," an insipid 6-8 love ode, and "Bound for Glory," a sweet if inconclusive ballad about a trucker committing adultery in the Canadian boondocks, the perennially angst-ridden Young has found a new peace...
...gabbing about the things real people talk about, like when the garbage will be picked up and why the landlord is such a grouch. Gibbs' hangdog cynicism is funny, and the writers have a good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures out the ruse and turns them down. "Told you it wouldn't work," says the daughter as they stalk out of the room. Snaps the friend: "Well, you set it up wrong." TV's First Father...
...Homesick Restaurant), but none combined oddities as well as Macon Leary. His occupation, for example, is matchless. Would you believe a travel writer for people who hate to travel? His guidebooks, published under the general heading "The Accidental Tourist," answer such questions as "What restaurants in Tokyo offered Sweet'n'Low? Did Amsterdam have a McDonald's? Did Mexico City have a Taco Bell? Did any place in Rome serve Chef Boyardee ravioli?" Like his unadventurous readers, Macon always feels the urge to shorten his itinerary and return home...
...find their way to it and drink it and get drunk and fall in and drown." What Wilkinson does best, though, is evoke the spirits of a man, a region and a culture that have remained stubbornly idiosyncratic. The last words Bunting says to Wilkinson, "A purpose accomplished is sweet to the soul," turn out to apply equally to them both...
...paper and little objects surface and vanish, overlapping like leaves on a forest floor. He called them all "Merz" constructions: the name was a fragment of a printed phrase advertising the Kommerz-und Privat-Bank, but it became generic. In these works, cubist ambiguity, constructivist utopianism and a sweet irreverence that was entirely Schwitters' own are knotted together as a gift to the future. The idea of the urban poet as a scavenger was by no means new. It had been around since Baudelaire's ragpicker in the 1860s; in 1882 Van Gogh praised the city dump of the Hague...