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High points on this disc include the"Cannonball" Adderly's mournful ballad "Mercy,Mercy, Mercy," and the four tracks by Booker T.and MG's (the only band that reallydeserves the label as `the hardest working band inshow biz'): "Green Onions" (which was named whenbass player Lewis Steinberg was asked to think ofthe funkiest thing he could), the molasses-thick"Hip Hug-Her," the ghetto-blues soundtrack to the1969 movie Uptight, "Time is Tight" and"Hang `Em High," an organ-driven remaking of thetheme song for the Clint Eastwood spaghettiwestern of the same name...
...high camp value of a Booker T. and the MG'sremake of an Eastwood-Western theme is maintainedfor the duration of the unflinchingly retro surfdisc, a collection of surfer instrumentals thatwere released between '60 and '63. Like all thebest that camp has to offer, this disc is morethan just an amusement item: the burning guitarwork and unstoppable rhythms that mark classicssuch as the Cantay's "Pipeline" and the Surfaris'"Wipeout" (check out those killer bongos!) serveas the backbone for this disc. The two tunes bysurf-guitar master Dick Dale are predictablystrong, as Dale deftly powers his way through histrademark, riff...
...disappointed and appalled by the vaudevellian proceedings--beginning with Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield's factually inaccurate narrative on African-American intellectual debate in the introductory phases of the program. For the record, I would like to point out that Booker T. Washington did not debate Frederick Douglas in Atlanta, for Douglas had died earlier in that year...
...unduly superstitious, particularly since Doyle, 35, has been thriving in Joyce's shadow. His first three novels earned impressive reviews and sales, and two of them -- The Commitments and The Snapper (see CINEMA) -- have received successful screen adaptations. And in October, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker Prize, Britain's most highly trumpeted literary award. Thanks to the publicity attendant upon the Booker, U.S. readers get the chance to buy Doyle's fourth novel now instead of next April, when it was originally scheduled to cross the Atlantic...
Some people, inevitably, will wonder what the Booker judges could possibly have been thinking. For Paddy Clarke, while intermittently funny, fresh and affecting, is ultimately frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy...