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Once again, the din of the candidate's radio and TV spots is battering the ears of New Hampshire voters. Gerald Ford: "He is the only Republican who can win in November." Ronald Reagan: "He will provide the strong new leadership America needs." Jimmy Carter: "A calm voice in a sea of shouters." Mo Udall: "The Democrat for President." Birch Bayh: "It takes a good politician to make a good President." Which pitch will set this year's perhaps unprecedented numbers of undecided voters to humming the candidate's tune? First in New Hampshire next Tuesday, then...
From the Strait of Gibraltar to the edge of the Sahara, 620 miles away, all Morocco last week seemed to be on one giant national picnic. In towns and villages, men and women sang and danced to the din of drums and the ear-splitting piping of flutes; excited children ran through the streets and watched their parents and relatives board trains and buses for the south. King Hassan II's bizarre crusade to "liberate" the Spanish Sahara (TIME. Oct. 27) was ready to begin...
...rock. He has gone back to the sources, rediscovered the wild excitement that rock has lost over the past few years. Things had settled down in the '70s: with a few exceptions, like Paul Simon, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt, there was an excess of showmanship, too much din substituting for true power, repetition-as in this past summer's Rolling Stones tour-for lack of any new directions. Springsteen has taken rock forward by taking it back, keeping it young. He uses and embellishes the myths of the '50s pop culture: his songs are populated...
...where the techniques of doing things have become more important than the things themselves; where language is debased in the service of such perversions. The book generates a cacophony of banalities and corruptions that drown out love, art, and whatever other human activities can be heard struggling beneath the din. At such moments, JR seems derivative of Thomas Pynchon's V and Gravity's Rainbow. But it is more likely that Pynchon was influenced by Gaddis' earlier Recognitions...
...averages a "complete walk-around" of the plant once a month, and says that he knows some 400 or 500 of his 3,000 employees. Most of his time is spent within his narrow, paneled suite, its subdued interior of light grays and white comfortably sealed off from the din outside. Owen works so intently and noiselessly that his secretary sometimes checks through the open door to see whether he is there. "To be able to lead here in a more personal way would be more gratifying," says Owen, "but the rules of the game are different. I have...