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...East Village. The five-man band has a driving, express-train beat, and a sharp and shimmering harmony, and a high voltage singer named Sheila. Their sound is all their own, but there are some familiar touches of The Lovin' Spoonful (Grew Up All Wrong) and Jefferson Airplane (Banana Split). In Banana Split, two electronic zaps project the listener, as through a time warp, into a liquid Eden of tinkling bells and clicking percussion. The Group Image calls it the Twinkie Zone, and it's a pretty good place...
...them justice, Hofstadter does not evade such criticism. He is often at lis best when throwing a few darts of his own. Beard's rendering of the Constitutional Convention, he suggests, makes the proceedings look like the secret and conspiratorial work of tycoons carving up some new banana republic...
KELLOGG PRESENTS THE BANANA SPLITS ADVENTURE HOUR (NBC, 10:30-11:30 a.m.).* The Banana Splits, a quartet of rock musicians and comedians, whips up something new in the way of children's entertainment in a weekly series combining live action, sprightly comedy, music and cartoons. Premiere...
...tribal loyalties to the larger loyalties of nationhood. The task is formidable, and not only because of the weight of tradition. In many ways, as M.I.T. Professor Harold Isaacs points out, "Africa is the most inhospitable of the major continents to human existence." For all the image of a banana-tree civilization, with food for the reaching, most Africans are permanently undernourished and physically below par or diseased. Life expectancy is barely 40 years at best. Illiteracy is the highest in the world...
...among expected visitors will be the McDonnell Douglas 188, a stubby, banana-shaped ship with outsized wings. Beginning next month, it will touch down at La Guardia's STOL runway between hops to landing strips set aside in Boston and Washington for extensive testing in the crowded northeast air corridor...