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...Department of Education, was created mainly because teachers' unions wanted it). Since it is an iron law that committees lose effectiveness in inverse ratio to their size, the Cabinet's growth has helped turn it into a show-and-tell group that has little collective authority. Its lesser members have hardly any access to the President...
...departure. The '80s may witness, for example, a long-overdue transition from an emphasis on feeling-"If it feels good, do it!"-to a keener focus on thought; feelings, at least the transcendent obliterations accomplished with drugs or extravagant sexual experiments, do not solve problems. Nor do the lesser sybaritisms of a hot-tub culture that in the '60s and '70s elaborated the idea of consumer comfort into a supine and giggling version of decadence...
...comeback--although ultimately unsuccessful--indicates some good things about this squad, points which have been evident all season against somewhat lesser competition. The loss itself, along with embarrassing defeats at Penn and Princeton last weekend, illustrates a potentially crucial dichotomy between the team's play at home and on the road...
...well as it did in concert, probably because the song lives (and dies) by its inventive lyrics, e.g. "Catherine Deneuve with her Chanel does it and the fragrance really lingers/Colonel Sanders with his chicken does it, and then, he licks his fingers." Musically, both the live and to a lesser extent, the studio versions of the songs suffer from fairly primitive mixings, and the sound is frequently muddy. The Kroks draw inspiration, not to mention an occasional arrangement, from Manhattan Transfer, but can't match the polish or studio values that four-person group obtains in their albums. Only...
With Mannix and Harris either out or seeing only limited action, some of the Crimson's lesser lights should get some much-needed experience and much-deserved playing time. Look especially for Robert Taylor, Ken Plutnicki, and George White--all of whom should get into the game early on. McLaughlin has been very pleased with the play of the Crimson bench thus far, as well he should be. "The guys we really need--from five to ten--have been playing extremely well for us," he said yesterday...