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...months. Main text and official reason: she needs money to restore the part of Windsor Castle that was ruined in a fire last year. Subtext: p.r. to make up for the behavior of her offspring and their spouses -- Di the bulimic fairy princess, fat Fergie and her toe-sucking Texan "financial adviser," Charles' ambition to become Camilla Parker-Bowles' Tampax. Will a trot through the state rooms of Buckingham Palace raise our minds from these mundane affairs...
After the first few verses, "Eileen" becomes a richly layered series of cascading guitar chords that turn this quick song strangely introspective, building into a musical climax with backups and clapping. The backups truly do the song credit--not obtrusive, but fulsome and satisfying. If your toe hasn't started tapping by now, you're just not coordinated...
...from the beginning, Nelson considers the Post to be a hostile working environment for minorities and makes no attempt to toe the corporate line. She explicitly states her intention to not become a member of the black bourgeoisie, which she claims has abandoned the less fortunate blacks who have no strategies of exit from poverty...
Bennett, the elder brother of former drug czar (and Republican presidential hopeful) Bill, has spent 35 of his 54 years in Washington. But he was shaped by blue-collar Brooklyn and nuns that made him toe the line ("If you did something wrong, they hit you"). He was a Flatbush Boys Club boxing champ, such a scrapper that his mother paid him a nickel for each day he didn't get into a fight...
Instead, we seized upon a third roommate's copy of King Lear and, bundled head to toe in earmuffs, parkas and Bean boots, stomped into the middle of our courtyard...