Word: meaner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breslin will turn out a monthly piece for New York, the magazine he helped start after the World Journal Tribune folded. But mostly he will write fiction, which some of his meaner critics claim he's been doing all along anyway. It's touch and go whether the world of letters will shine brighter because Breslin is there, but it's a certainty that newspapers will seem greyer without...
MILES DAVIS, MILES IN THE SKY (Columbia). Some small changes have crept into Trumpeter Davis' newest recording. He plays meaner, less prettily. In Paraphernalia, Guitarist George Benson augments Davis' usual group, which consists of Pianist Herbie Hancock, Tenorman Wayne Shorter, Bassist Ron Carter, Drummer Tony Williams. In Stuff, Hancock plays an electric piano that, coupled with Williams' steady rock beat, gives an earthier, more organic undertow to the trumpet's aerial treks...
...Teddybear, Wear My Ring, and on to Little Sister, Return to Sender, and Devil in Disguise (one of the few masterpieces in the recently-released Elvis' Golden Records--Volume 4). And while some critics have proclaimed the death of this line, the King's current smash, U.S. Male, is meaner, ornier, and harder rocking than all but the most vintage Presley. The other line, less spectacular but qualitatively better, has flowed equally, from I Want You, I Need You, I Love You through Don't Love Me, Fame and Fortune, Any Way You Want Me, to I Can't Help...
...synthetic as its scenery. Its sole distinction was that it introduced Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name. Now The Man is back, again played by Eastwood, but this time he comes equipped with a better plot, some real outdoor landscape, and a cast that looks even meaner than he does. As before, acting is forbidden; histrionics are kept to a contest of who can give his lip the tightest curl and who can give his eyes the narrowest squint. The competition results in a slit decision between Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, another Hollywood-to-Italy refugee cast...
HOUSING. Getting good housing is perhaps the most difficult hurdle of all for most Negroes. One tragedy is that urban renewal often means Negro removal-replacing shacks with vertical ghettos for middle-income Negroes and forcing lower-income Negroes to move to even meaner slums. Because the Negro urban population has almost doubled since 1950, the ghettos are spreading. Negroes now constitute 27% of the population in Chicago, 37% in St. Louis, 39% in Detroit, 40% in Birmingham, 41% in New Orleans and Baltimore, 24% in Norfolk and 63% in Washington. Worried about being surrounded by Negroes, most whites flee...