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...four times what he made from a day's hustle in Cairo, he takes Sinai-bound passengers on the 2½-hour trip to the Suez Canal. As the highway stretches into the desert, the horizon is broken only by an occasional military encampment, gas station or Marlboro billboard in Arabic. Soon clumps of palm trees signal the town of Ismailia and the Suez ferry dock at Qantara...
...WHOLE ALBUM--taking a cue from the title--seems devoted to the growing middle-American fantasy of donning one's Frye boots and Stetson, grabbing a Miller, and riding a bucking bronco out west. America is now Marlboro Country and it's hard to miss the growing fascination with ranch types on TV commercials, or the fact that Kenny Rogers sold $45 million worth of records last year. Steely Dan has joined the stampede. Granted, it might be parodying the way of life, but even that's not clear...
...when Yo-Yo first left home to go to a summer music camp, he ran into difficulties. "I became totally disorganized," he says. Even back at Juilliard and later at the Marlboro Music Festival, he "acted crazy and silly." He would go to sleep on tables, get drunk, play pranks. The solution was, of all things, to be shipped off to Harvard. There, in addition to studying music, he could meander in and out of Dostoyevsky, sociobiology, German literature...
...locker rooms or showers, the hotel food was only marginally edible, and the 6,000-seat stadium stood virtually empty. "This," declared Eliot Teltscher, the world's tenth-ranked tennis pro, "is no way to run a tournament-in China or anywhere else." Other players at the Marlboro Grand Prix Tennis Classic in Canton, the first professional athletic competition in the People's Republic, were in a similar funk. "I didn't eat for the first two days," insisted Tennessean Terry Moor. But the most celebrated participant took it all in stride. In fact, Jimmy Connors hardly...
Outdoor advertising in the People's Republic of China was once mainly brisk quotations from the works of Chairman Mao mixed with exhortations to work harder for the victory of Socialism. These days the billboard messages might be promotions for such American consumer products as Kodak film and Marlboro cigarettes...