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ROCK MUSIC has not aged gracefully. Compare the lyrics of the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" to their recent "She's So Cold," or the Who's "My Generation" to their recent "Daily Records," and witness the loss of depth in both power and vision wrought by the past 15 years. One problem, paradoxical for this piece, is that the vigilance of reviewers' scrutiny has made pure pop songs, like, say "Da Do Ron Ron" taboo. Groups forced into mixing internal broodings with commercial and critical success wilted, or suffered tragic deaths. American "Top 40" music has since deteriorated to formulaic, dreary...
...spokesman, meanwhile, dismissed Begin's accusations as "misleading and insulting," and inexcusable even during an election campaign. Though Begin supporters denied the charges of electioneering, there was little doubt that his anti-German tirade was popular at home. Begin seemed downright pleased by the diplomatic havoc he had wrought. Said he: "I won't lose even a moment's sleep...
...fact, is the anticlimactic schmaltz with which Wilson daubs his optimistic ending. A band is playing, the moon shines over the lake, and...they kiss. The curtain would fall, only there is no curtain. Something about the cliched nostalgia of this moment cloys, after the lifelike dialogue and fully wrought characterization of the rest of Talley's Folly. But the moment is over quickly. And anyway, Wilson obviously knew what he was doing--his play has been a hit in New York and other cities, and won the Pulitzer Prize last year. If to sell a delicately unpretentious, inspirationally rich...
...Democrats' program paid an ironic tribute to the change in the political climate wrought by Reagan's landslide election and the vigor of his budget blitz. The two documents are far more conservative than any group of Democrats would have approved even in January. Jones himself admits, "It really isn't a radical departure from the President's program." But the Democrats are trying to reverse the two parties' traditional roles by painting themselves as the champions of budget balancing and by picturing the Republicans as irresponsible tax slashers who are voicing "faith...
DIED. Enid Bagnold, 91, British playwright and novelist whose elegant, carefully wrought works include the Broadway and London hit The Chalk Garden (1955) and the 1935 novel National Velvet, which nine years later became a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, then twelve years old; in London. Bagnold, who was married for 42 years to Sir Roderick Jones, longtime chairman of the Reuters news agency, demanded three hours every day for writing in their 35-room mansion in Rotting-dean, Sussex...