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...promote something.) The Dead ended the night with three well-known rockers, "Around and Around," "Feelin' Bad," and "Not Fade Away." After soaking up ten minutes of applause, they returned for an encore with a strident version of "One More Saturday Night." In all, the show was a good blend of popular favorites from past albums and newer material; certainly the selection was not a blatant promotion effort for their predicted new album...
Right up to the last moment, the President, Energy Adviser James Schlesinger and other officials continued to shuffle the program's blend of penalties and incentives. The major elements, as they stood at week...
...interest publications. The newest subject of concentration is ethnic pride-magazines addressed to English-speaking Americans with foreign backgrounds. Last October saw the first issue of 1-AM (for ItalianAmerican), with items on Italian food, wines and the arts. It was quickly followed by a competitor, Identity, a sophisticated blend of Italian American news and culture. Now comes Nuestro, an ambitious four-color monthly for Hispanic Americans. Nuestro hit newsstands last week at $1 an issue with a splashy cover story announcing "The Latino...
...pairing is a sunny one. The Eagles' sounds are quintessential Southern California, while Buffett's music is countrified Caribbean. He lives aboard a 33-ft. ketch called Euphoria, and island-hops through the Antilles. His music, like his lifestyle, is a gentle blend of folksy Southern rock and infatuation with the Caribbean. Buffett writes, often puckishly, of Gulf Stream idyls, Latin crimes of passion, and tequila-filled days. His themes, presented in simple rhythms and sung in an engaging baritone, have the languorous appeal of a fishnet hammock. As he sings in Wastin' Away Again in Margaritaville...
...drifters, grifters, autodidacts, a few nuts and bolts from the political machine. Some of the guests, Terkel remembers, "favored me with little nickel blue books: writings of Eugene V. Debs, Clarence Darrow, Thomas Paine, Bob Ingersoll, Upton Sinclair, Voltaire." Young Terkel was ripe for this heady blend of populism and indignation. The political passion of his life was conceived in 1924 when Fighting Bob La Follette ran for President on the Progressive ticket. "There were two other candidates," Terkel notes, "one of whom...