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...Helen Reddy Show: The bad format of a variety show taken to its logical barren conclusion. Take the most consistently banal, if not truly offensive performer on the popular scene and fill the hour with bad guests. She claims to be a feminist, yet permits such racist chauvinist crap as Flip Wilson's Geraldine act to take place on her show. Feminism would be far better off without such plasticized, consumer-oriented pablum as this...
...then, that the most direct attempt at some sort of viable context should fail so miserably. "The Great Deception" is simply a bad song, possibly Morrison's first ever. It's lyrics are banal, its arrangement ordinary, pleading in even its title to recall just the slightest hint of The Platters. No one should be forced to cope with lyrics like...
Most of what she seems to have gleaned from the Washington social circuit are banal generalities ("That November day in 1963 was a turning point ...") or trivial particulars ("Edmund Muskie and I were arguing about abortion . . ."). Indeed, Laughing is only incidentally an anatomy of power in the nation's capital. Howar's story is much older: how a girl with looks, sass and plenty of hustle cultivates powerful people and becomes the next best thing to powerful -famous...
...precious as anyone deliberately called Artie could be. I found their music smug and overconfident; it represented the worst of the thoroughly reprehensible middle sixties "folkie" tradition. It was all there in "Homeward Bound;" its singer's over-inflated, self-pitying view of himself was combined with a banal excursion into sentiment. By the time S and G had reached the self-conscious artiness of "The Boxer," they had dissipated their creative impulse, aad were selling two million records at a crack...
Something far more banal was also at play, however-an invincibly ignorant pride. One of the saddest of the new books is called Against Stalin and Hitler (John Day; $8.95). The author, a former Eastern Front officer named Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt tells how the advancing Germans failed to enlist the struggling Russian Liberation Movement in their assault on Stalin's forces...