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What the Republicans need, according to Jazz Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, is a campaign song. Collaborating with Elizabeth Firestone, daughter of Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone, Hampton has whipped up a 32-bar opus called We Need Nixon. Its conclusion: "In him and God we place our trust. Our man is Nixon, he's right on! Fixin' a better world for all of us." During performances with the Hampton Jazz Inner Circle, the composer passes out singles of his new ditty while the boys play Hampton specialties. What happens when Democrats disapprove of his offering? "Oh," says Hampton...
...would have resigned from them if necessary.) He gave up cigarettes years ago, now smokes only an occasional ceremonial cigar. Knowles is a determined part-time author. He first wrote technical medical books, has recently finished a collection of essays on health care, and is planning his next opus on "what the '60s and '70s mean to this country." To an extensive library of American history and the social sciences, Knowles the bibliophile is adding works on the history of medicine. As a footnote to the history that Knowles is trying to make, Boston University two months...
...hero's life worsens, so do his eyes. Scorning pity-and grateful to get out of the house-Wilson enters the hos pital for an operation that checks his on coming blindness but leaves him only barely sighted, though able to draw. His first opus after the operation is an antiwar parable, actually Thurber's The Last Flower, which the film makers have seen fit to animate. When Wilson's young stepdaughter visits him one day and sees the cartoon, her stammer is cured. Reconciliation with Terry can not be far behind...
BERRYMAN's MOST recent book does not possess the unity necessary for comparision with a work of the magnitude of Dream Songs. At least one of the poems included in Delusions, Etc., "Scholars at the Orchid Pavilon," was begun over 20 years ago. Only its first section, the "Opus Dei," composed of the poems following the offices of the day, has the sustained internal coherence necessary to approach the consistent outlook of Dream Songs, and those eight poems are on a much more modest scale. In this final book, Berryman has created no character of the engaging importance of Henry...
Cotton had merely been a successful novelty for Hollywood. Then, in Sweet Sweetback's Baadaasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles gave white film makers a revelation, earning several million with a low-budget opus that was furiously and uncompromisingly black. But it was Shaft that put the message across. Photographer-Author-Composer Gordon Parks' action film about a black New York James Bond cost $500,000 and was one of three movies that made any profit for MGM last year: an astonishing $ 13 million gross in the U.S. alone...