Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last six weeks doing nothing except going to see Cecil Taylor every night in New York, recently walked out of a Coryell concert after the first few minutes. My friend has always been a great jazz barometer and I never thought too much of Coryell's club-type jazz anyway, so you probably won't see me down there...
...town to a Disney-like complex on the freeway. It was inaugurated, you may recall, by President Nixon a few years back. If memory serves, this was the event at which the Trick failed to negotiate properly a yo-yo he had been given by the citizenry. Anyway, things have pretty much moved out of the city except for the business district--tall buildings where everything is sheathed in structural steel. Even with all the civic pride that obviously went into these structures and the malls around them, they are a little ghostly, especially at night. The outskirts are where...
...human skills as they are: not only can't she cook, but she can't refuse sex to men she doesn't like and can't even muster the intelligence to see she's being murdered. When she learns the truth she airily trots back to the scoundrels anyway. We are left wondering which is the appropriate cliche--"Just like a woman?" Her rationale, not given, would seem to be on the order of "boys will be boys." She has an unlimited capacity for swallowing their neglect and abuse even after their attempts to drown her have failed...
...nobody wins out, everyone having been clearly shown the error of his greedy ways. Nichols tampers fatally with the format by making the heiress the one who wants to give it all away, and the two men selfish dopes who don't deserve the money but apparently get it anyway. The moral simplicity of the tale is so distorted, and its punch so diluted, that we end up disgusted with the heroes and indifferent to the outcome. Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, and even Mel Brooks in his undisciplined way are intensely moral comedians; they treat comedy as much conflict...
...mills are operating at only 74% of capacity and inventories of unsold metal are large. Aluminum companies argue that they have to recover higher operating costs (Jamaica, a prime source of the raw material bauxite, has raised the price more than 700% in the past year) and that anyway, low prices do not move metal in the face of still weak demand. Though the council has no authority to order price boosts stopped, and must rely solely on public-opinion pressure, Rees persuaded Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser (which led off the increases) to delay until the council can hold...