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...right turn, is deemed the most technically difficult in the world. More than 50 bobsled teams have crashed on the turn this whiter. When the run was opened in December for practice by U.S. and foreign teams, as many as four sleds a day were coming a cropper...
There really isn't a weak song on the rest of Side 1, either. "Messin' With the Kid" features some fine guitar work by Murphy and especially Steve Cropper, the legendary Memphis session man, producer, and mainstay of Booker T. and the MGs. Belushi smooths out his vocal delivery a bit in "Almost," and Tom Scott of the L.A. Express handles the sax break as the rest of the horn section punches away. Next comes Aykroyd's only solo number, a wonderfully obscure bit of nonsensical babbling called "Rubber Biscuit" which is, believe it or not, quite faithful...
...song succeeds nonetheless. "I Don't Know," which follows, is very funny and includes some extremely suggestive lines from Belushi ("Baby, you know when you bend over I see every bit of Christmas, and when you bend back I'm looking right into the new year."). On "Soul Man" Cropper delivers the same great riff he's been playing for years, and fellow MG Duck Dunn's bass line is downright thunderous. " 'B' Movie Box Car Blues" and "Flip, Flop & Fly" are fine, though not up to the standards set by the album's other tracks...
Primary night brought The Duke, the strongman hero of the winter blizzard, up against the reality of his own spectacular lack of popularity. The mellow man in the crew-neck sweater, the man who had looked so great in February, had come a cropper in November, for the simple fact that he was not a likeable man. Dukakis could not campaign well, and Ed King did. King also had the issue...
Last week Tiny Rowland came a cropper at one of his favorite vocations:meddling in the politics of black majority rule in Rhodesia. Not only does Lonrho have vast investments in the breakaway British colony but Rowland has friends-favored ones-both among the leaders involved in Smith's "internal settlement" and among the Patriotic Front leaders who are fighting them. The industrialist's immediate problem, however, lay in nearby Tanzania, where the socialist government of President Julius Nyerere announced plans to nationalize Lonrho's 18 local affiliates...