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Will America be blinded by this craze? We must face the whipped-cream threat and lick it before it meringues our morals. Ask not for whom the pie flies, it flies...
...GOOD OLD DAYS-THEY WERE TERRIBLE! by Otto L. Bettmann. 207 pages. Random House. $10. Otto Bettmann of the Bettmann (picture) Archive adds a needed dash of bitters to the nostalgia craze with this illustrated reminder that in the good old days (circa 1860 to 1910), pigs crowded people off New York streets, untreated garbage brought disease to the suburbs, Chicagoans and Pittsburghers lived in perpetual smog -the word coined by a Glasgow sanitary engineer in 1905. The author's words and pictures also jolt the modern reader with the horrors of oldtime horse-traffic jams, railroad accidents, street...
Jebriath is, one of our correspondents tells us, "just like David Bowie, only more so." He's at the Performance Center until Sunday, and is being touted all over the place as a great act. Don't believe it. He's cashing in on the Bowe-Alice Cooper craze and has a very elaborate style with lots of props and strange sexuality but musically he's all show and no go. If you don't believe us listen to his new single, "Scumbag," and decide for yourself. Stay home and watch Highway Patrol instead of Jebriath...
Anything Goes, a pretty good Cole Porter musical that's been produced a thousand and one times since the nostalgia craze began, premiers this weekend at the Washington St. Opera House in Sommerville. The 369 School for the Performing Arts, sponsors of the show, will serve meals at Saturday's and Sunday's performances. If the singing and dancing don't agree with you, maybe the bologna will. Call 628-0266 for more dope on this...
Already it looks as if commedia della calculator will fast become a national craze. Says James Rogers, an editor of Scientific American magazine: "I went through the stage of saying 'I don't need one of these.' But once you get one, it's sheer bliss." To achieve BLISS, punch 441304, divide...