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...that fiddle about how rock is the great new art form of the era, about how it should be a potent force for political and social comment, if not outright change? Does it now turn out that its most significant current figure is just doing what Tin Pan Alley has always done-wedding simple musical ideas to quite ordinary lyrical notions about love, loss and longing? And, in the great tradition of the music business, avoiding any things that might be regarded as "difficult" or "controversial"? The answer...
...point to this period as the age of the choreographer-director sun gods. The Apollonian names will be Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Michael Bennett and Bob Fosse. Fosse makes total demands in the realm of precision. Apart from that, he is the most paganly sexual of choreographers, and Shubert Alley is his mother earth-the source of his awesomely abiding strength...
Died. Leroy Anderson, 66, pop composer-conductor; of lung cancer; in Woodbury, Conn. Anderson launched what became a long career in Tin Pan Alley with Sleigh Ride, in 1947, an instantly popular orchestral piece that established his relentlessly bouncy style. His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts...
...controversial bestseller in Germany. Whatever Buchheim's intention, his commander, a dour 30-year-old invariably referred to as the Old Man, comes off as the foreman of a band of master plumbers who seem to spend most of their time wrapped around greasy tubing talking about their alley-cat sex lives...
...whole process of evacuation was beset by such disturbing uncertainty. TAT TAT CA DEN, MAY LANH VA QUAT KHI RA VE, instructed the sign on the bowling-alley wall at evacuation headquarters: "Turn off the lights, air conditioners and fans when leaving." It was an eerie notion that here, in an abandoned American bowling alley that had become a makeshift waiting room for thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, the light at the end of the tunnel was about to be extinguished at last...