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...Pittsburgh. "I never did dig the man much when he was alive." When a well-provisioned Harlem "liberator" was asked why he was stealing, he cried: "It's because they killed what's-his-name!" "You know why people loot?" explained one young rioter. "Because they ain't never, so long as they live, gonna have enough money to buy a color-television set. Man, I got big ambitions but not much will power...
...save for impending hurricanes, droughts and floods, most viewers are concerned only with basic questions: Hot or cold? Rain or shine? As one hip pie informed a Los Angeles meteorologist: "Hey, man. Weather ain't good or bad. Weather just...
...They ain't complaining about the flu at least these days," said the chunky newspaper seller corralling compulsively spent loose nickels...
...addition to guitar, bongos, bass and drums, he is accompanied by a distinctively Garner rhythm device that the album cover aptly describes as the "swinging-grunt"-emphatic guttural sounds that express his exuberance at playing uptempo. The effect is to put fresh magic into his renditions of // Ain't Necessarily So, Autumn Leaves and More...
Blunt & Brutal. Jenkins, who took over the chancellorship last November after James Callaghan quit in humiliation because of the devaluation, reject ed the half measures with which Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government in the past has tried to cope with Brit ain's worsening economy. Instead, he struck squarely at the most bothersome aspect of Britain's financial weakness: a balance of payments deficit that reached $1.3 billion last year. He hopes to turn that deficit into a $1.2 billion surplus this year by the blunt and bru tal method of taking money from British pockets...