Guns N’ Roses: Wimps ‘R’ Us
Deborah Frost, Village Voice, 1 October 1991
SMART BOYS DON'T talk about anarchy; stupid boys don't know about it. It's hard to imagine, say, Emma Goldman (who, true, was not really a boy, only a garden-variety anarchist) starting a riot, then complaining she lost her contact lens, like Axl Rose did after his recent debacle at St. Louis's Riverport amphitheater.
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