“I seem to be awfully thirsty these days.” “Tessa’s the same,” said Michael. “I suppose when you’re feeding these guzzly babies it’s understandable.”

But creepily enough, from '30s delta bluesman Robert Johnson's beating-until-satisfied Me and Devil Blues to Jackie Gleason's 1954 One Of These Days — Pow! to Dion's face-slapping 1962 Little Diane to Lou Reed exclaiming you better hit her in There She Goes Again to the Intruders chasing girls and beating 'em up in their 1968 beach-soul hit Cowboys to Girls to the wifebeating has been around for 10,000 years headline fronting Guns N' Roses Lies, those in favor seem more prevalent.

The whole central traffic of London was held up, and many collisions were reported between the demonstrators upon the one side and the police and taxi-cabmen upon the other.

Doubtless music is pre-eminently the Uranian’s art. His emotional nature goes out to it and in it, as in no other.