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South Africa's Stuart Cloete (rhymes with rooty) is the author of three arresting historical romances about the 19th century Boer settlers and a well-informed study of black Africa (The African Giant). Now his tribal milieu is Victorian England, where white slavery and prostitution flourished underground because a...
Cleans v. Dirties. Proposition 16 is flatly opposed by California's Democratic Governor Edmund Brown, the California District Attorneys' Association, the California Library Association and the California Republican League. Even G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Ronald Reagan, who is for it, acknowledges "constitutional problems." The state attorney general's...
Sir: Cleans and Dirties be damned. The Rolling Stones didn't invent the bawdy song: it's been around for some time. As for LSD and pot, they are what's happening, and it would be surprising if pop songs didn't take account of them...
But not all the rockers are as ready to explain their "hidden meanings." That would destroy the mystique. As a result, the pop-music audience has become divided into two camps: the Dirties, who read debauchery into the most innocuous lyrics (they see Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the...
Hope, locked into a star image that no fiction will penetrate, nominally portrays an Oregon real estate schnook who calls a wrong number and soon has Elke bathing at his remote woodland cottage. "The biggest thing in bathtubs since rings," he says, snatching every conversational gambit from a store of...