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...older brother of one of the Kingsmen suggested that the group dress 50's style for the concert and, without telling the group, distributed handbills which read, "So you think you're an Ivy Leaguer? Bullshit. Underneath your button-down shirt is the eighth grade greaser standing on the corner, whistling 'Duke of Earl' to yourself and watching the girls go by. Come down to Ferris Booth Hall where the Kingsmen will be reliving the old days. Come dressed...
...starters, the Talking Heads do not look like the average New Wave band. Not only are they not punks, they actually look more like slightly decayed preppies. They have short hair, dress neatly in button-down shirts and peer calmly from the back of their album, looking for all the world like young stock brokers on holiday. They let it be known that they are adults, not raving juvenile delinquents like their comrades...
Occasionally, Stalinism shows a sunnier face. But that is merely tactical, says Revel, because the frown is sure to follow. Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is "simply a button-down Stalin without the old man's dementia." He has not emptied the Gulag of its millions of prisoners nor have any of the lesser Gulags in all the other Communist nations been dismantled. In fact, when Russia relaxes its grip on nations like Rumania and Albania, their societies tend to become even harsher and more restrictive. "De-Russification," writes Revel, "does not mean democratization...
First there was Charles Reich outstanding law student, clerk of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and button-down member of an aggressive Washington law firm. Then came Charles Reich Two: the Yale professor who put his pulse on the thumb of the nation when he ratified and amplified the '60s counterculture in The Greening of America, the most profoundly naive bestseller of the period. The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef introduces the third Reich, a San Francisco homosexual who now quotes Joni Mitchell and Walt Whitman and preaches an herbal-essence philosophy called "evolutionary rebellion...
...characteristic talent for getting a maximum of feeling and perception from a minimum of words. At a time when books about women as victims appear with numbing regularity, Double Honeymoon seems a skillful unpretentious throwback to the tradition of woman as seducer - a kind of Blue Angel with button-down wings...