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...ENGAGED. Mac Davis, 40, singer and writer of winsome pop-country tunes (Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me, It's Hard to Be Humble) and sometime movie star (North Dallas Forty, The Sting II); and Lisa Kristen Gerard, 24, a registered nurse; in Los Angeles...
...younger generation knows that $9,287 will not buy many tickets to a Fleetwood Mac concert, but the S.M.A.P. remembers when $10,000 was generally accepted as the unofficial frontier to wealth. To be "a $10,000-a-year man" was synonymous with membership in the upper middle class. That was what the S.M.A.P.'S father had earned as a professor at Harvard, and when the S.M.A.P. was young he considered it the height of vaulting ambition to earn as much. Some day, when he too made $10,000 a year, he would be able to consider himself...
...however, surely has, since he demonstrates an encyclopedic eye for their clichés. All eagerly serve Writer Stewart's earnest desire to reduce experience (he is a Navy OCS graduate) to pulp. Never does a satirical gleam enter anyone's eye. The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul. -By Richard Schickel
Listen to Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack and you hear one of the best albums of the year, solo piano at its funkiest and most soulful. Take in one of the Doctor's appearances on his summer concert tour and you get a brilliant initiation into one of the most enduring American musical traditions: rhythm and blues, New Orleans-style. Mac Rebennack-known since 1963 for his professional appearances as Dr. John-has been a first-class musician, a cabin-class superstar and a keyboard boogie man, keeping the tradition of his native city alive and treating it proud...
...tended to be far more somber than lighthearted. The dominant topics were the nuclear arms race, the decline of Western values, the nation's economic troubles and the dangerous tensions abroad. Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was awarded honorary degrees in absentia at Providence College in Rhode Island, Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and Springfield College in Massachusetts. Said Monsignor George G. Higgins at Providence College commencement ceremonies: "You [Walesa] are an electrician whose light cannot be obscured by the darkness of despotism. You are a free man whose spirit cannot be confined...