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Still, it's these older songs that seem the correct assessment: Smoking is a consolation for the vicissitudes of life, a prop for losers.
Byron, Annabella, née Millbanke, wife of B. ... vicissitudes of her marriage, 71-7
These were the first songs of the American cities, cautionary tales of the vicissitudes of urban life: "Mother was a Lady," "She is More to be Pitied Than Censured."
The best, "Seasons of Love," [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP] affects the same ensemble solidarity as "What I Did for Love" in A Chorus Line . [LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]Both can find no better use for the pop ballad than as group therapy--one for those suffering the vicissitudes of life as a chorus gypsy, the other for those "living in the shadow of AIDS."
Mrs. Bell comments that the term vicissitudes does not occur in the text (and, I daresay, courtship and marriage do not occur as chapter headings, either).