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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moroz could not be reached for comment yesterday
...York deterioriate. We see people lose themselves in drugs because they don't deal with their sense of spiritual emptiness. I intend Manhattan to be a metaphor for everything wrong with our culture." He says that he and Brickman in their original script intended to make a direct comment on everything that they loathe about modern chemical, mechanized and ideological distractions. Though a few of these were lost in the final cut, it is hard to miss Allen's meaning. He does offer some tentative solutions to the issues he raises. One is contained in the character of the young...
...similarly vitriolic comment on the subverted chicness of punk, "I'm So Cute" emulates the "beat-it-into-their-heads" method: stupid words, short lines, and screaming repetition. Many of the other songs on this album, although not deliberately mimicking punk, are painfully consistent with this style. And they're boring. Zappa lets his compositions ramble in a way that shames his genius as an arranger. Usually a clever and inventive songwriter, Zappa here contrives disappointingly sparse and uncreative lyrics. Only his provoking cynicism remains...
Moroz could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Rosovsky said yesterday that "it was not impossible" that he had discussed the matter with Kissinger but could not remember any specific conversations. Kissinger could not be reached for comment...