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ALEXANDER PORTNOY complained that he was living in the middle of a Jewish joke--the Jewish joke of his whole life, as told to his shrink Dr. Spielvogel. That joke ended with Spielvogel supplying the punch line: "And now vee may perhaps to begin...
LEGEND OF MR. VEE. A "mythical play." To me this sounds like the mock war crimes tribunals they used to have, with all the real war crimes lying around. Maybe someday it will grow up and become a real play. Tomorrow and Saturday, 8:30 p.m. at the Black Wheat Theater, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street in Boston...
...rapidly expanding trailer subculture, a new vacation industry is taking shape. The sites are variously called destination resorts, luxury campsites, hotels without rooms. They cater to families owning "recreational vehicles"-trailers, campers, motor coaches-whose number is now increasing by 25% a year. In 1961, 83,500 "rec vees" were sold; last year the number was 740,000. There are now some 6.5 million rec-vee families...
...called Carnie, or ZLatin, which follows-and sometimes ignores-a complex set of rules for disguising the meaning of ordinary English. The word sucker, for instance, may be translated "see-a-zuk kee-a-zer," or simply "see-a-zuker," while carnival becomes "kee-a-zar nee-a-zuh vee...
...include both highly instrumentalized, perhaps electronic rock, probably attempting a new kind of orchestral sound, and a simpler folk-rock emerging from the music of people like Jesse Colin Young, Jerry Garcia, and Robbie Robertson. After all, when a year passes in which Bobby Darin, Robert Thomas Velline (Bobby Vee), Rick Nelson, and Dion (of the Belmonts) try to cash in on folk music, it is reasonable to claim some movement from rock to folk--wherever that movement may finally lead...