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...problem's not so much the ideology behind Ono's songs. Her statement on "The Feminization of Society," which appears inside the record jacket, is an intelligent, if not too original or subtle statement of her political position. But she doesn't sing the statement. Therein lies the difference...
...Tastefully dressed in a pale green turtleneck, matching jacket and slacks, Taoka, who is recuperating from a heart ailment, played the solicitous host to perfection. He offered his caller a delectable piece of green melon and then launched into a professorial discourse on social ills. Many of his followers, he said, were low-caste buraku-min (TIME. Jan. 8), social misfits who had suffered from discrimination. Since the government offered no help for them. Taoka had taken on the responsibility. 'What I need now,' he declared, 'is the services of some scholars in finding ways and means...
...high school is known as "Fort Crenshaw" because of its steel mesh fence, armed guards and classroom doors that lock from the inside. Not even such Draconian measures have left Crenshaw free of violence. Last month a gang climbed over the fence, tore off a student's jacket and severely beat...
Andrew Wyke is an aging member of the gentry who leads a life of informal ease. Wearing an ascot and casual jacket, button-cuffed shirt and white socks, he dictates his latest novel in the garden, gleefully acting out the roles as he speaks into the microphone. The same self-conscious play-acting carries over into his dialogues with Tindle and Doppler, where Olivier handles it with lighthearted style. Where the script calls for Wyke to do impressions (such as Charlie Chan, a Bronx hoodlum, or the typical detective), Olivier presents them perfectly--as the exuberant expressions of an eccentric...
...kind words, along with the highest French and German decorations. At the final gala dinner, the German Chancellor nearly forgot to wear the lapel button of his brand new Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, then suffered a brief moment of panic when he discovered his dinner jacket had no buttonhole. The situation was saved by the deft thrust of a pocket knife...