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Harvard's Lewontin dismisses theories like these as "barroom generalizations." Indeed, sociobiologists seem prone to concoct theories to explain a wide array of human problems. Harvard Biologist Robert L. Trivers presented the convention with his sociobiological view of parent-child relationships. Conflict is built in, he said, because parents divide their genetic investment-and their attention-among their children; while each child has a 100% investment in itself and struggles for 100% of the parents' time...
Chain Gang. Meanwhile, Cartoonist Tony Auth of the Philadelphia Inquirer drew rock breakers in an Eastern European chain gang whispering, "President Ford declared our independence. Pass it on." And the Richmond News-Leader's Jeff Mac Nelly put Carter in a Texas barroom full of jug-eared Lyndon Johnson lookalikes; the candidate points to a portrait of L.B.J. over the bar and asks, "Say, who is that nasty-lookin' snake up there? He sure is ugly...
...restaurant, refuse to pay the bill and then identify himself as Philippe. Once he stole a truck, and it was Philippe who found himself answering police questions. Just two weeks ago, Philippe encountered some sailors who told him he had made a fool of himself in a barroom brawl the night before (when, of course, he had been home...
...Clark's No. 1 (RCA) till now to try to get a grip on myself. Never mind: it's probably the finest country album I've ever heard. The best numbers are "Rita Ballou" ("She's a rawhide rope and velvet mixture/ Walkin' talkin' Texas texture/ High timin' barroom fixture/ Kind or a girl") and "Texas--1947". This is the first album for Clark, a first-rate songwriter who wrote a lot of Jerry Jeff Walker's material. His voice is a raunchy beer-soaked, high whine, gritty and vital. Playboy calls his songs "Larry McMurtry set to music...
Died. Eddie Dowling, 81, Pulitzer-prizewinning producer and virtuoso of such other theatrical arts as playwrighting, songwriting, directing, dancing and acting; in Smithfield, R.I. Young Eddie, the 14th of 17 children, supplemented the family treasury with pennies earned doing a song-and-dance act in barroom doorways and in prizefight rings between bouts in Woonsocket and Lincoln, R.I. In 1919 he made his Broadway debut in The Velvet Lady, quickly followed by the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, starring Will Rogers and Fannie Brice. Eventually turning to producing, Dowling in 1937 won acclaim for Shakespeare's Richard II, with Maurice Evans...