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...remember Warm, sleepy days blended into magically extended evenings; weekends were spent at the beach and at barbeques. Spontaneity was the key and idle recreation the goal. But now, as the first nipping chill of winter creeps into the air, and mid-terms rear their ugly heads, those sweet memories become obscured, made dim and vague by the pressing realities of fall term...
...what it was." It is a strange, foul odor, not unlike the stench from a sodden box of cat litter. It reminds many of the women of home-permanent solution. Karen Wickham, who teaches at the town's elementary school, thinks the smell is like "fecal matter, but also sweet and fruity," and Mary Lou Smith detects an onion aroma. "What it is," says Kenneth Vaniter, "is a take-your-breath-away smell...
...contrast, "Sweet Bitter Love," which Franklin first recorded two decades ago for Columbia, features some pretty tasty stuff. The singing on this number is so emotional one wonders how Franklin could even finish the song. The same goes for "Integrity," which Franklin wrote and produced, and which has the immediacy and purposefulness of a real feminist anthem--"You think ladies are toys/I like the big boys/...With integrity...
...thought a lady. But within these contours one can spot distinctive felicities and failures. Three of the films sink under the weight of earnestness (Marie), whimsy (Maxie) or scuzz quotient (Jagged Edge). In the others, two fine actresses can be seen at their resourceful best, fleshing out a character (Sweet Dreams) or camouflaging the void within it (Plenty...
...evidence suggests she earned that voice. In her marriage to Charlie, she shows that she can stand by her man, stand up to him, then throw him out when he gets too rough. Curing the on-the-road blues with a little a cappella harmony on Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Patsy finds therapy in music: a way both of transcending her troubles and of registering each semiquaver of pain...