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...keep informed, and we'll meet in the morning.'" It was at best ill-timed frivolity to needle the Administration, at worst an instance of absurd misjudgment. At the suggestion of more realistic advisers, McCarthy subsequently "amended" his statement to criticize Russia and make clear that he did con sider the invasion a serious matter...
JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON (Columbia). Ex-Con Cash recorded these songs at California's Folsom Prison, and the echo of prisoners' applause against concrete walls adds a bitter and powerful background. A guard's announcement that "88419 is wanted in Reception" serves as sharp counterpoint to such lyrics as "The newspapers called it a jailbreak plan,/ But I know it was suicide." Most chilling song: 25 Minutes to Go, a swinging minute-by-minute account of an execution by hanging. In its own way, a sad, brilliant album...
...artist like a prostitute? See Music, Second Fiddle con Brio...
Nudes in the Score. Con brio serves as the motto of Schneider's life as well as his music. Married and divorced three times, he is an Old World charmer who, as a friend puts it, has a different girl for every occasion. "The only important things," Schneider sighs, "are women and music." His exuberance sometimes leads him into a harsh candor about other musicians' performances, which he cheerfully calls "giving it to them over the head...
Wallace, Reagan, Rockefeller, and McCarthy are not necessarily new politicians. But voters seem to think that, unlike Nixon and Humphrey, they aren't old-style con...