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...many ways fascinating and often fun. Everyone who lived through the period carries a mental collage of its dense popular culture; one remembers it now with a small smile of disbelief at the ingenious pointlessness of it: Milton Berle and Pinky Lee, My Little Margie and American Bandstand, Gorgeous George and Johnny Ray, and Elvis televised from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan Show. Grace Metalious (Peyton Place) and Mickey Spillane were available for mildly salacious excitement; the new tranquilizers (Miltown, Thorazine) saw to the jitters of civilization; Fulton Sheen and Norman Vincent Peale attended to the soul...
...Pepper was tense and perspiring, and he had not played a note yet. From the bandstand, he looked out at the opening-night crowd in Fat Tuesday's, a sleek Manhattan jazz club. "If you only knew the route," he said to them, "what I had to do, to get here...
...Greg Louganis proved he could twist and spin both on the ground and in the air. A member of Dick Clark's American Bandstand troupe, Louganis danced to the latest hits and that summer became a hit himself, substituting a platform diving board for a platform stage and soaring to an Olympic silver medal...
Next day yet another bomb went off, this time at a bandstand in Brussels, where a British military band was to give a concert as part of the Belgian capital's millennium celebrations. The I.R.A. is suspected of having planted it. The bomb injured four band members and twelve spectators; no one was killed. Intelligence experts have believed for some time that Irish terrorists have a base in Europe, whose operatives were responsible for the gunning down last March of the British Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, and possibly the car bombing from which outgoing NATO Supreme...
Throughout, Hardwick demonstrates that she can certainly sing the blues, though her tone is more akin to the stoic captions on classical tombstones than to the bandstand. Her epigrams are the winding sheets of memory...