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This season's credo: fun in the 20s, angst in the 30s...
...that means these 50 sides are some definitive blues: great blues, in the great tradition. Elmore James, who was born in Mississippi in 1918 and died in Chicago in 1963, led the archetypal bluesman's life: he rambled around the Delta with Robert Johnson in the '30s, played juke joints in the '40s, had a couple of R.-and-B.-chart hits in the early '50s, cut some fierce sides in the late '50s and early '60s (collected here in all their home-fried glory), then passed on from the accumulated effects of road life and drink before his legend...
...generation gap could hardly be more clearly defined. TV's under-30s are, for the most part, shallow, fun loving, upbeat. They tend to live in communal groups and spend a lot of time in the sun. They are still young enough to be entranced with the idea of being on their own. One of the two bachelors who room together (while working at Patti LaBelle's nightclub) in Out All Night raves about their new apartment: "It's what we've always talked about. A place of our own, with no parents, no dorm directors -- just freedom...
...opportunity, has about it a certain eloquent irrelevance -- something like the old waving of the bloody shirt, or the snake-oil vending that has always gone on in American politics. North Carolina Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, a baroque declaimer of the Southern school of rural demagogy in the '30s and '40s, was a genius of flavorsome insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came out caw-vee-yah. "You know what caviar...
...other women, bisexuality is a late discovery. "Many never had any sexual attraction to other women," notes psychiatrist Tim Wolf of San Diego. "But now they are in their 30s or 50s, and they fall in love with a particular woman." Lani Kaahumanu was a typical San Mateo, Calif., housewife, wed to her high school sweetheart for 11 years and the mother of two children. With the women's movement of the '70s, "all of a sudden there was this freedom to love women," says Kaahumanu, 48. She divorced and for four years lived what she calls a "very public...