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...male in this hip arrangement to show his true chauvanist, possessive, jealous and increasingly inhuman colors. We cautioned you about the cruel commentary on the new morality in Alpha-Beta last week, but at least the outcome of that romantic fiasco stayed pretty much up in the air. The wind-up here is far less ambiguous: this Mr. Machismo stomps his liberated and true love's face in with his bootheel. Subtle, Chabrol, subtle...
TIME went to the 31st Republican Convention with a squadron of editors, writers, correspondents and researchers. From the opening gavel on Monday to the oratorical wind-up on Thursday, we found ourselves in a Kansas City that was boiling-climatically and politically. Despite the heat, the noise and the crunch on the crowded floor, our staffers were everywhere in the Kemper Arena covering the most exciting G.O.P. gathering since 1964. Many of them are pictured here in action...
...centers round the country. It also became the model 50 years later for the mass production of watches. The fine, precise machine tools used by watchmakers to create the cheap timepieces that eventually sold for a dollar were directly descended from the Whitney musket factory. By 1876 the American wind-up alarm clock had been invented at the Seth Thomas Clock Co. in Connecticut. The morning would never be the same again...
...wandering into our shack chanting, "Fried potatoes, Fried potatoes, Fried onions...," spuming beer down over his chin like a baby gurgling on its pablum (greasily, in big, viscous bubbles), his Coors can outstretched as he flexed to show off his "megalopulous muscles," twittering about the floor like a wind-up toy (skittering into walls ever so lightly and then reversing his direction), telling us about his "Vitamin A" (as in acid) as Gay went to get his flute so he could demonstrate that he was not yet Ian Anderson...
...Fingers" concludes the album much in the way "Wind-Up" did on Aqualung. By and large, it's a pretty pessimistic conclusion, portraying us well as Aqualungs on the final day of judgement. "Two Fingers" is musically very similar to "Wind-Up" although greater emphasis is placed on its up-tempo portions...