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Billy Joel: 52nd Street (Columbia). Mc Cartney's competition. Home-grown and nurtured on big-city streets, Billy Joel sings spiky ballads and ornery anthems about bitches, grifters and bozos on the make. Pop with a punch...
...film is a curious collage of war footage, old movie clips and the songs of John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney. The songs (recorded by pop stars like Elton John and Tina Turner) are affecting in their own terms, but they cannot underscore a subject like war. Too often they are used in glib juxtapositions, as when Japanese planes take off for Pearl Harbor to the strains of Here Comes...
...strike, Dr. Gallagher called for a meeting with the Black and Puerto Rican Student Community to restore the broken lines of communication. Gallagher said that he supported the whole thrust of the demands. Addressing himself to the Five Demands, Dr. Gallagher began by saving that he expected Professor Wilfred Cartney's report on the establishment of a Black and Puerto Rican Studies Program in a few weeks. Dr. Cartney, a Black professor of African Literature from Columbia, was hired to assist the students in the development of such a program. As of several weeks ago, the proposed school would exist...
...Prof. Cartney committed to a separate school? Are "programs" in Black and Puerto Rican studies the same thing as a separate school? If not, have the students agreed to accept Prof. Cartey's recommendation...
...West Indian Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da to the schmaltzy Good Night, a sweeping panorama of pop genres unfolds in parodies, pastiches, takeoffs and put-ons. The boys even spoof themselves. George Harrison's Savoy Truffle contains a cross reference to Lennon and Mc Cartney's Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. In Rocky Raccoon, Paul McCartney imitates successfully and amusingly the nasal delivery of Bob Dylan. The lyric...
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