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...last interviews. The exaggeration was permissible; Elvis Presley, a Memphis hillbilly shouter, did, in fact, radically transform popular music in America. Prior to "the Pelvis," the rhythms of rock were buried in the funk of "race" music. In his wake came the generations of rock compounds: -abilly, acid, punk, and, inevitably, Beatlemania. The first to mesmerize the millions of white teen-agers of mid-'50s America, Elvis all too soon degenerated into rhinestone rumbling, and his act, his records and films, even his bloated, tragic end, contained elements of self-parody...
...witness with him the brutality, corruption, drug abuse, homosexuality, squalor and general degradation that is his class's lot. Stay away from this film if you are the least bit squeamish; there is an unending stream of unsettling images that give the movie the appearance of a bad acid trip. Why go see a film like this when you can go see "All The Marbles" which is about lady wrestlers? Why go to college...
...chunky, driven, greedy: these adjectives apply to Kitaj's appropriation of the world-particularly the bodies of women-with line. Sometimes his egotism goes out of control or his taste fails him, or both, as in an absurdly paranoid self-portrait that looks like Jack Nicholson fried on acid. But when confronted with the posed model, in The Waitress or his various nude studies, Kitaj draws better than almost anyone else alive, taking on all the expressive and factual responsibilities of depiction and carrying most of them through...
...technology could represent the most significant advance in batteries since the development almost a century ago of the common lead-acid battery, Dennis Signorovitch, director of public affairs at Allied Corporation, the company licensed to develop and market the battery, said yesterday...
Research conducted at UPenn indicates that the rechargeable plastic battery could be ten times more powerful and much lighter and long-lasting than a comparable lead-acid battery, the type most widely used today, Alan MacDiarmid, professor of Chemistry, said yesterday...