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...that he is 29, his first record, titled simply Warren Zevon (Asylum), is getting some rave reviews. Asks Rolling Stone: "Who could have imagined a concept album about Los Angeles that is funny, enlightening, musical, at moments terrifying and above all funny?" Zevon's high-spirited blend of country rock, bluegrass and churchy harmonies is marred by the fact that he has a raw, gritty voice and cannot sing very well. But neither can Bob Dylan or Randy Newman. Those who come to hear Zevon perform are not purists. They are beguiled by his lyrics, which typically are about...
...measures bode ill for the foreign exiles living in Argentina. A large number of political refugees from right-wing repression in Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil have sought asylum in Argentina over the years. There is nowhere for them to go now in South America except Venezuela and Colombia, and they would be well advised to stay away from the latter. The Chilean secret police force, operating in Argentina, has rounded up 1300 refugees (Garcia Marquez, N.Y. Times 5/8/76) and will probably try to return them to Chile...
...unfortunate that this production draws you in for the sights and stumbles over the ideas. Oskar Panizza's view of the world turned him into a paranoiac who sought safety and death in an Austrian asylum. He didn't notice when World War II broke out, but he knew the essential facts of it, anyway...
America in the 1960s and 1970s has found it harder to respond to crime than America in the 1830s. Earlier, we dealt with the problem by creating new institutions-the police, the prison, the asylum, corporations, the mass political party, local self-government-through which to control dangerous impulses and channel constructive ones. Today there are virtually no institutions left to invent: crime increases in spite of police, prisons, and public and private government. For a long time, and to our great disadvantage, we clung to the myth that there was a bureaucratic or governmental alternative to familial and communal...
...tones and mannerisms of its subject. He can do a wry impression of Tennessee Williams, explaining what happened to Blanche DuBois at the end of A Streetcar Named Desire: "Well, ah assyume she spent the next three ye-ahs seducin' th' young doctuhs at the insane asylum, then was let out and opened a smawul shop in the French Quahtuh...