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...have suggested that the idealism of "West Wing" constitutes some sort of wish-fulfillment for its viewers. In the modern world, zoning out in front of the television may indeed be tantamount to a 21st century version of dreaming; had Freud lived today, he might agree that when we switch into couch potato mode, we are unconsciously drawn to that which we desire most...
...trouble. We start out at the Village Idiot drinking the bar wine - always a mistake. Find ourselves at the Crystal Ballroom, one of the last true bum bars on the Bowery, where a slumming uptown bartender has finagled a cheap P.A. and convinced some downtown bands to play. We switch to the gin I have in a hip flask. Kim, lead singer of Da Willys, throws herself to the floor in the middle of a an uptempo version of "Last Train to Clarksville". She moves out into the audience - still clutching the microphone, still singing - on her hands and knees...
None of this bodes well for the Crimson offense, which after 2.5 games of explosive, high-flying point-scoring became a dud in the final 30 minutes against the Big Red. One of the reasons for this was Cornell's switch to an aggressive eight-man front, designed to put pressure on junior quarterback Neil Rose and stuff...
...mammoth effort by Green Day standards. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, clad in his standard tie plus untucked shirt and Converse shoes ensemble, kept up an ongoing exchange with the crowd, often rambling but rarely preaching. The kids were clearly fans-there was a loud cheer for the switch to Billie Joe's standard Stratocaster guitar, affectionately known as Ol' Blue. It wasn't surprising, then, that requests ranged from early-era "Disappearing Boy," found on 1990's indie release 39/Smooth, to semi-joke track "Dominated Love Slave" from their second album Kerplunk! On the latter, a fan was brought...
...only return when a campaign to strip appointees of the old regime of their positions in the bureaucracy is halted. And that could be a serious problem for Kostunica, who lacks the parliamentary majority necessary to form a government unless he can persuade Milosevic?s Montenegrin allies to switch sides...