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...TURKISH DELIGHT...
...liberals. Drawing from the back files of Politics, the superb little magazine he edited and published (and often practically wrote) between 1944 and 1949, he offers the definitive gloomy word on Wendell Willkie and Henry Wallace -targets that may not exactly fascinate a post-Watergate reader. But what a delight to watch the Master at work...
...marvel of utility, supple enough to take what the world offers each day and make it new. When he speaks of "the fall of the year," he is not reading from a calendar but describing what he has seen in the fields. Similes are there to surprise and delight: a mule is "pretty as a peeled onion," a group of children is "raggedy as a can of kraut...
Zappa's musical output in the last year and double concert at Boston's Orpheum theater last weekend suggest that the brilliant composer may decide eventually to sacrifice his art for greater public acclaim and a higher income. To Zappa's delight, his last three albums, Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe' and Roxy & Elsewhere, scaled the charts and seduced a new crop of listeners--mostly teenyboppers jaded by glitter rock--into becoming "Zappa Freaks." But all this success spells trouble. The band that once proclaimed it had "no commercial potential" is now in danger of becoming much too commercial...
...happy fact, of course, is that a send-up as elaborate as this takes on a delight of its own. The close tie to a real-life political absurdity eventually becomes a hindrance, but The Abbess of Crewe is a wonderful joke while it lasts...