Legend led Withers out during "Lean on Me," eliciting cheers from fans who may or may not have known that Withers has performed live only sporadically since his first round of fame, making Saturday's show his first major public performance in more than three decades.
Withers bowed out as the 1960s came in, bouncing with new approaches that she found unsettling.
But that is becoming easier to do, as Ms. Withers found out, because courts are giving a more sympathetic ear to their tales of woe.
"We listen to it... the rumour of money withering out of the walls and floors and out of the granite kitchen countertops, turning them back to bricks and rubbles and stone".
But if a greater number of our daily transactions are mediated by computational trust systems, we may be withering out ability to handle trusting transactions.
There followed a withering, inside-out version of "It Had to Be You," whose usual mood of exultation was replaced by disgust, every "you" uttered in a tone of contempt.
I'm afraid that they might not have violated his rights as defined by the courts, because we have allowed those rights to wither away out of fear and indifference.
