Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chuck Berry chords and adding an cery vibrato, Jagger doing an Otis-like "I can't getta no, no, no, no," that faded into "You can't always get what you want" back to "we're gonna get ourselves, some satisfaction," the audience lost on the Stones/Satisfaction myth. "Honky Tonk Women," dedicated to "the loose women in the audience," and closing the set, a limp "Street-Fighting Man." Bam. They split with their hulking guards, leaving the audience too hopped on its own totemic rituals, its own cruelties, to ever come down...
Cultural Defoliation. The signs of anti-Americanism are most obvious in Saigon. Nightly, along the city's gaudy Tu Do and Hai Ba Trung streets, G.I.s and South Vietnamese troops swap insults and punches-often over the favors of bar girls. In one such honky-tonk brawl earlier this month, a major in the Vietnamese Rangers chopped off the hand of a U.S. military policeman with a machete. In June, two American military police who had rushed to a bar in response to complaints that a drunken G.I. was making trouble were shot to death by Lieut. Colonel Nguyen...
...expectations of the students were shattered by reality, they became obsessed with leaving the campus. Boredom loomed. For 12,000 students there was only one restaurant nearby and no cinema. Nanterre itself is a "bidonville," a honky-tonk town of shabby houses and grey shacks surrounded by huge expanses of dumps and cheap, concrete apartment buildings. Fitzgerald's ashheaps and Eliot's wasteland, they are Nanterre. A fantastic number required a shrink...
...hand as they danced, head back, eyes closed. The dancing got looser and wilder and better. It went on like this for blocks and blocks, and the second line got bigger all the time. The musicians bounced along blasting out their roughest and raunchiest music, "Little Liza Jane," "Honky Tonk Town," "Shoutin' Blues." The numbers just kept coming. Battiste strutted sideways, holding his trumpet with one hand, a beer can in the other. Huge drops of sweat glistened on his face...
...anyone who devises and successfully executes a plan to draft Lyndon B. Johnson, put him in uniform complete with butterfly net, and ship him off to the rice paddies." Potential applicants for the prize may be put off by Gibson's payoff record: he volunteered to play honky-tonk piano at a local fund-raising benefit for Senator Eugene McCarthy-and reneged the moment the McCarthyites tried to take him up on the offer...