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...tattered themes by understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A." And it ends on a note of tolerant satire: "Old Roger draft-dodger leavin' by the basement door/ Everybody knows what he's tippy-toeing down there...
...Hold on a minute. (Pause, muffled voices. Then:) Well, yeah I know what it is, but I'ma pikcha-takin man, see, anduh...
...James Bond, kid. I'm the picha-takin man for the real sliks, Playboy's Life, and I wanna take a pikchov...
...midst of the curbstone babble, a Brooklyn cab driver shrugged: "It's a corrupt city. You gotta expect things like this. Everybody in this city has his hand out. Everybody's takin'. Nobody's givin...
...plantation of a friend, Long suffered what doctors called "slight heart failure," but recovered sufficiently to wolf a hearty dinner of roast beef, chicken and dumplings, corn, black-eyed peas, salad, beer, buttermilk and coffee. ¶ Raging at the wholesale desertion of his followers ("They're takin' a runout powder!"), Long began firing dozens of the unfaithful with the speed of a Cuban revolutionary tribunal. His worries increased when five other candidates, led by New Orleans' able Mayor deLesseps Morrison, announced their willingness to run for Governor against him. Meanwhile, federal Internal Revenue agents were winding...