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...Poets and playwrights wrote of insecurity. Pop singers may have (justifiably) felt it. But they certainly didn't sing about it to their fans. Lennon did. "Every now and then I feel so insecure," he sang in "Help!" He also admitted to jealousy, suicidal depression and (in "Cold Turkey") heroin addiction...
...even when she was alone on stage, Dar wasn't performing solo. The audience (most of whom knew her entire catalog by heart) sang along, dancing in their seats. Their excitement only grew when Dar announced near the end of the show that it was being recorded for a live album...
...keep passions from getting out of hand, police separated Bush and Gore partisans by 10 feet of sidewalk. It was as if they were in bleachers with a playing field between them. Cheerleaders with bullhorns led the chants, and spectators, some holding small children by the hand, sang out in unison. "Count Every Vote, Count Every Vote," cried Gore supporters. "How Many Times, How Many Times," replied the Bushies. Another cry erupted from the Bush camp: "Concede Again, Concede Again." Gore backers sang back, "Don't Get Snippy, Don't Get Snippy." From the Gore side: "Read My Lips...
Even the police were laughing. "Gore Got More. Gore Got More," sang the Gore camp. "We Won, Three Times. It's Time For You To Go," replied the Bush fans. There was more: "Cheney Needs a Heart, Bush Needs a Brain," from the Gore camp. To which the Bush fans replied: "Hey, Hey. Ho, Ho. Al Gore's Got to Go." And my personal favorite: "Oh No, I'm Not Ahead. I Think I'll Call My Brother Jeb." We'll leave you to guess who said...
This is why it is so hard to make coherent sense of the place. Every time we "all come to look for America" (another Simon lyric) , we end up staring at ourselves. Old Whitman sang the confusion: "Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States each for itself...O lands! all so dear to me--what you are, (whatever it is), I become a part of that, whatever...