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...various talents that have enabled him not only to bridge the generation gap but to leap all the way from commercial pop to rock stardom. In the past three years, Diamond has turned out enough hit songs (among them: Kentucky Woman and Sweet Caroline) to keep the current champion, Burt Bacharach, watchful and busy. But where Bacharach plods as a performer, Diamond dances...
...Burt Bacharach...
Also on the list are four young men who allegedly bombed the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center in August, killing a postgraduate researcher. They are David Fine, 18; Leo Burt, 22; Dwight Armstrong, 19, and his brother Karleton, 24, a former Wisconsin student. Black Militant H. Rap Brown, 27, made the list after he failed to appear before a Maryland court last May for trial on charges of inciting to riot and arson during a 1967 demonstration. The longest search has been for Cameron Bishop, 28, charged with the 1969 dynamiting of electric power lines that...
...Jacques Brel opens with a number called "Marathon" that traces five decades of modern European history and decides man is trapped on an ever-accelerating, never-ending treadmill; in a later song, "Carousel," the same theme is repeated. Of course, Burt Bacharach had Dionne Warwick say, the same thing in his theme song for Valley of the Dolls, and, for me at least, just as persuasively, but then of course Bacharach can't be ranked a "poet" alongside Mr. Brel. (And although I would hate to live through a night of Burt Bacharach Is Alive and Well and Living...
...charged in the Boston bank robbery-cop killing; Cameron Bishop, a student wanted for blowing up a defense power plant in Colorado; and the four men alleged to have blown up the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Dwight and Carl Armstrong, David Fine, and Leo Burt. All "should be considered armed and dangerous...