Word: valium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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routines about Sylvia, about to be fired, and Karl, who can't get a divorce, and Dorothy's Valium...
...neither Reaganomics nor any plan for restoring business stability can be expected to work like an economic Valium tablet and provide instant relief. "It took us 20 years to get into this mess," says Getty Oil Co. Chairman Sidney Petersen. "We are not going to get out of it in the next 20 months." Adds James Howell, chief economist for the First National Bank of Boston: "Wall Streeters remind me of a mother on her daughter's wedding night. They just need to be a lot calmer, and we'll get through this...
...campaign has given both the networks and their advertisers a severe case of the jitters, and Butler's comments caused still another run to the Valium. Though he disagreed with Wildmon's methods, said Butler, he endorsed his aims: "I think the coalition is expressing some very important and broadly held views about gratuitous sex, violence and profanity. I can assure you that we are listening very carefully to what they say, and I urge you to do the same." Actually the chairman was merely reaffirming a policy that goes back to the days of radio...
...hyperventilates. The songs are more spacious, giving Elvis more chances to pose, to mince a bit, and some of his vocals have a slurred, lolling quality, made creepy by strangely dissonant, disconnected back-up vocals. See him there, leaning against the piano, "trying to look Italian to the musical Valium," all hope gone. He's always been cynical, but his anger signaled hope; Trust is faith in nothing. This is some of his most "listenable" music, meaning that you can play it at parties without apologizing, you can listen to it in snatches. The choruses in particular tend...
...rock'n'roll stardom in a shack in Tuscaloosa; Ray--who steals a Learjet and crashes it into the Toronto woods; Ray, the unfaithful, who needs to make love twice a day, who fantasizes about naked women in high-heeled shoes, who delivers papers on the effects of Valium but can think of little but the erotic blue veins of his nurse's feet. Ray--whose friends are becoming lesbians, whose parents had him by holy accident, who wants to fly, fuck and read poetry; Ray--who drinks too much wine and falls back in love with his wife...