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...night I was just having a few drinks and mindin my business when this guy gets real drunk and comes up to me with this knife and asks me if I wouldn't mind gettin a haircut. Well I sort of sidle away from him til some woman by the jukebox laughs at the man and tells him he ain't man enough to cut that boy's hair. Then he really went after me. He had me from the back and had that knife at my throat when Patty yells at him "You son of a bitch!" and punches...
...license plate division to bail us out. Unfortunately, they had other ideas and held us hostage under threat of feeding us to Mr. Confetti--the newspaper shredding and bailing machine. In fact, I'd say that at that time I'd have given us about as much chance of gettin' out on the water by 9 p.m. as most people gave us at the Sprints last year, if you know what I mean...
...even Humphrey is a dove of long standing compared with several Democrats who announced their conversion last week after the Hanoi-Haiphong raids. "I'm for gettin' out," George Wallace said last week, to the general astonishment. If the Communists should wind up taking over in Saigon, "it will be tough," Wallace added. "But I want us out." On Capitol Hill, Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma, abandoning his usual caution, voted with the House Democrats who endorsed, 144 to 58, by far the most stringent antiwar resolution ever to get anywhere on that side of the Capitol. (The House...
...last and best item of the evening is Gettin' It Together, the Story of a man and a woman who can neither stay together nor keep apart. Coretta (Beverly Todd) has had a son by Nate (Morgan Freeman), her lover. He likes to take the boy on picnics, but he also likes to keep other women on the side. Coretta wants the security that this black man cannot give her, and Nate wants the freedom that the white world will not allow him. They are caught in the bittersweet toils of their love, and Richard Wesley has written...
...Stewart's concern with the lost past turns, in Picker, into a vague, if not reactionary, romanticization of "kids everywhere, gettin' on in the back seat of the car." He sums up his disaffection with American life with the parable "Shoot all the brave horses and how will we ride," which is repeated for a tiring three minutes at the end of the album...