From: jeff.downing at harcourt.com Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:04:54 -0500
>From Greil Marcus' column in today's Salon:
Associated Press, "Music, the Universal Language," Sept. 13
"After a week of chaos and terror in East
Timor, Indonesia's powerful military boss sang
'Feelings' yesterday to show why he can't walk
away from the independence-minded province.
"To cheers from retired military officers at a
party, Defense Minister Gen. Wiranto
dedicated the song to foreign journalists: 'I
hope you have the same feelings, like me, for East Timor.'
"His eyebrows arched in restrained emotion, Wiranto held the
microphone in both hands and stood stiffly in a yellow batik shirt
and crooned as a band played the l975 hit popularized by Paul
Williams:
"'Feelings, nothing more than feelings ...'"
I can't go on. This is just too sick. You always knew the song
was rotten, but evil?