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When Gore appeared at New York City's Town Hall last week, the notice in the box-office window read: TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT. NO WAITING LIST. NO STANDING ROOM. NO TICKETS FOR SALE. Gore was greeted by cheers, whistles and a standing ovation. Nine days earlier he got the same reaction at the film's Los Angeles opening...
...Babe," Dylan uses the title of Niles' song, but ups the antagonistic ante: "Go away from my window, / Leave at your own chosen speed. / I'm not the one you want, babe, / I'm not the one you need. / ... You say you're lookin' for someone / Who will promise never to part, / Someone to close his eyes for you, / Someone to close his heart, / Someone who will die for you an' more, / But it ain't me, babe, / No, no, no, it ain't me, babe, / It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe...
...wrote and Mary Martin sang, "lost in each other's arms.") It's true that songs of emotional defiance had been a sub-genre of blues. In folk music, John Jacob Niles, the Kentucky balladeer with the dramatic delivery and the pure falsetto, had written "Go Away from My Window," covered by Harry Belafonte and Joan Baez - and adapted by Dylan...
...Niles lyric sounds clear enough: "Go away from my window, / Go away from my door, / Go away way from my bedside / And bother me no more / And bother me no more." But it got a softer, more complex meaning both from the melody, which has the poignancy of a lullaby to an absent child, and from Niles' rendition, his voice soaring on the first "bother me no more" so that he sounds like an unquiet spirit, or maybe a sleeper shooing a ghost out of his nightmares...
...help your grades without actually writing anything. Just sit back and absorb.Not so Productive – Watching “The Juggernaut Bitch” for the 90th time. I don’t care if he custom-made yo’ suit, close the browser window. In times as dire as exam period, youtube.com is not your friend. Productive – Sending out study guides. You’re helping the masses, and you’ll be revered as a savior over email lists across campus. Except by the people who actually made the study guides?...