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...teen-feel songs invariably wallow in melancholy, trying to touch nerve ends with anything from the merely silly to the downright psychotic. The teen-age girl, as described by her taste in music, is above all a martyr-to broken dates, homework, high school-a St. Joan of the Jukebox yearning for weak heroes with weaker ideas. Dion, a pathetically undernourished singer with a pleading little voice, is among her favorites now. and his songs have titles like The Loneliest Man in the World and Unloved, Unwanted Me. Joan Baez (TIME cover, Nov. 23) is a hit with teen-agers...
...Vadim? Not everyone is giddy with euphoria, however. Many of these Hollywood Romans, for example, spend their time in Jerry's American restaurant, eating hamburgers and French fries, and listening to an American jukebox. A few speak Italian; most of the others don't bother to learn. They seldom mix with their Italian peers. There is a growing wistfulness and nostalgia for the good old gaudy joys of Hollywood...
...hesitates, stares after him bewildered. Impossible! But for an instant she could have sworn the old tramp was her husband! Next day when he comes by again she asks him in. He has a kind mouth and sad eyes that light up wonderfully when she plays Rossini on the jukebox, but something in his face suggests a damaged and diminished man. "I've lost my memory," he explains shyly. She faints. She is sure...
...huge halls. Eventually, to get more revenue for the railroad, advertising signs with blinking lights were hung from the walls, stainless steel booths and shops appeared, new cars were spotlighted on revolving turn tables. The inside of Penn Station became what Lewis Mumford calls "a vast electronic jukebox...
...Most of the fair's original Design Committee (including Edward D. Stone and Gordon Bunshaft) have quit. One critic predicted that the fair will be "the most horrendous hodgepodge of jukebox architecture that has yet been assembled." Says Moses, who cites the 1893 Chicago Fair's classical revival as an example of the "devastating effects" of an overall fair style: "You mean you're going to tell General Motors what kind of building...