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...pitching of EJ Tiante, your boasts would have to be of a modified variety, as in "I saw the backsides of the row of people in front of me who gave Tony C. a standing ovation. Three had checkered underwear, one spilled popcorn on me when she went to clap and forgot that her left hand was occupied, and one had his back pocket picked by an usher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Savoir-Faire | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...Spirit of '76 Fife. His raspy voice sometimes turns lyrics into a stammer reminiscent of Otis Redding. At other times, words are replaced altogether by suggestive mumbles or a bent guitar note accompanied by a telling smile. And most of the time, his audience can't help but clap, stomp and sing right along with...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: A Touch Of Taj | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...Ravages of Spring a middle-aged country doctor on a round of house calls finds himself threatened by a string of tornadoes. He seeks shelter in a clap-board-gothic house and lands in the middle of a Vincent Price movie. It includes a mad scientist, a demented, beautiful woman and a terrible secret: through genetic tinkering, the scientist claims to have discovered how to populate the world with exact duplicates of himself and his companion. Solipsism teeters toward the edge of reality. The storm explodes the house like an inflated hypothesis, but the doctor survives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Gothic | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The Emperor's New Clothes | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...that's only any good because of its star and because of what it says in retrospect about the 50s. The Cagney film, on the other hand, is the greatest musical biography ever made. Cagney can't sing to save his life, but he sure can boogie. The patriotic clap-trap that fills the footage can go, but the George M. Cohan songs should stick around forever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 7/30/1974 | See Source »

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