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STEELY DAN takes its name from the painting of a large dildo. Maybe group co-founders Walter Becker and Donald Fagen meant it as self-denunciation. Maybe they meant to give a unique image to the unique sound of pop with a rock/reggae edge. In either case Steely Dan today continues as the most consistent and developing band around. It also represents exactly what's wrong with American pop music...
Gaucho, its newest release, is typical Steely Dan. It sports a hit single, and Becker and Fagen once again play bass and sing, and co-write all the songs. The "finest studio musicians around," including Dire Straits' guitarist Mark Knopfler and veteran hornmen the Brecker Brothers, Tom Scott and David Sanborn again make appearances. Steely Dan isn't a band, it's a conglomerate. On one cut, sixteen musicians are listed. The result, which lacks the breadth of most big band music, sounds neither spontaneous nor energetic...
...opportunity in the next four years to demonstrate the virtues of its old openheartedness when it is practiced in imaginative ways. But if the party merely reverts to a reflexive New Dealism, it may only be an opposition that proves the maxim formulated by the late social theorist Ernest Becker: "A protest without a program is little more than sentimentalism-this is the epitaph of many of the great idealisms...
...with a non-existent Harvard attack, a Penn conversion seemed inevitable. The Quakers finally evened the match when Bruce Becker banged home a winner after a scramble in front of the Crimson net with 8:17 remaining in regulation time...
...replies Gloria Allred, the feminist lawyer who prepared Bick and Becker's suit. "Restaurants are the last bastions of rituals having to do with rigid roles for men and women," says she. The priceless menu implies "that women will always be taken care of if they're with a man, and that we shouldn't be bothering our pretty little heads about the price of dinner." Another ritual that Allred abhors is having the man taste the wine, which "suggests that women can't appreciate fine wine." As the general manager of another stylish Los Angeles...