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Lyrics like that, tied to strong melodies that can be either stringently lush or stingingly harsh-real whiplash rock 'n' roll-make Zevon wonderfully weird and wholly unique...
...leave. And even America's left has been essentially indifferent to the real issue of African liberation throughout the anti-colonial struggle. Bereft of constructive ideas, and unwilling to organize on behalf of pressing for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Angolan soil, they rejoice in the whiplash of the other superpower's totalitarianism, reckoning that a Soviet stooge is by definition more progressive than an American stooge. Implied in their stance is the American arrogance that an African independence movement is incapable of self-identity and of pursuing its own development...
...have each sold more than $1,000,000 worth of copies. The most recent, Billion Dollar Babies, is already a $2,000,000 baby after only four months. Leading department stores round the nation are now stocking the Alice Cooper line of unisex cosmetics: Alice's Whiplash mascara will soon be followed by perfume rouge, deodorant and "Take a Bath with Alice" bubble bath...
...neither dead nor alive, just M.I.A. She remembers November 1969, when an antiwar group brought back a list of prisoners from Hanoi and Joe was recalled to life as a P.O.W. She saw Joe on television then, being paraded before microphones in Hanoi. Most of all, she remembers the whiplash of last fall, when peace was at hand and then suddenly the hand was gone. Before that promise faded again for a while, Joan decided Joe would be home before Christmas. She called the kids together, and after "a conference" they all agreed. Only one present would be bought...
...after all, has ever seen a traffic jam under purple skies and whiplash rain--while a lone white stallion threads through the maddened crush--and an empty rocking chair balances a spread umbrella--and on the roadside an enormous pahllic stone keeps company to a vast vaginal entrances--and a movie crew dangles precariously from a careening crane--all culminating in a thousand car jigsaw squeeze outside the Colleseum exploding with volcanic glare...