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Rock is still a kind of music-and a life-style-in which women are frequently called "chicks" and are, as performers or presences, expected to behave accordingly. You cluck prettily. You smooth your feathers nicely. You don't try to take over the barnyard. When Carolyne Mas says, "I'm not a chick singer," she is not so much handing down a manifesto as setting up an aesthetic credo. Mas has no special interest in forcing some shotgun wedding of feminist politics and rock; neither do the others. They sing songs of personal reflection, not propaganda...
...Chick Yales...
...could forgive the obvious bullshit involved if the presence of Clarke--and his Return to Forever colleague, Chick Corea--had somehow managed to make this album worth listening to. But they are no more than sidemen on LifeTimes. Diana Hubbard, on her first album, runs the show, playing piano, (Corea isrelegated to the synthesizer on the one cut he graces) and writing all the music. But unfortunately Hubbard lacks emotion, technique; in fact, she lacks any creative vision beyond a vague desire to "contribute to a renaissance in romanticism...
DIED. Charles Evans, 89, amateur golfer who became the first man to win both the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur championships in the same year (1916) and who toured the greens with five Presidents; in Chicago. A former caddie, Indianapolis-born "Chick" Evans had to drop out of Northwestern University when he ran out of funds. He went on to compete in a record 50 successive U.S. amateur championships and in 1930 contributed his winnings to establish the Evans Scholars Foundation, which has enabled more than 4,000 former caddies to attend college...
...have to do this to protect every chick and child in Cambridge," Vellucci said at last night's council meeting...