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...home and forget the war" went the disk jockey's sexy, close-to-the-mike line to the G.I.s. Broadcasting from Berlin, alongside her German lover, Mildred Gillars, alias "Axis Sally," sandwiched Nazi propaganda between records by "der Bingel" Crosby. Her broadcasts eventually drew Mildred a twelve-year stretch in a federal prison for women. Out on parole in 1961, she taught French and German in a suburban school. A long-ago dropout from Ohio Wesleyan University (she had been the first coed to wear knickers on campus in 1920), Mildred, at 72, quietly finished work for her degree...
...narrow strip of earth along which the shadow of the moon travels as the lunar disk completely obscures...
...Richard M. Nixon, born 61 years ago in a log cabin in Whittier, California ... in a blue suit ..."). Both New York Disk Jockey Don Imus and Comic Dickie Goodman have recorded mock interviews with Watergate figures, whose answers are couched in snatches of rock hits. Sample from Goodman's Watergate: "Mr. Nixon, what will your position be on the Watergate from now on?" "No more Mr. Nice Guy," bawls the voice of Alice Cooper...
...with his zealotry intact, lunuma proceeds alone to his assassination target as planned, and commits the suicide he had desired-in the book's last sentence, which is touched by Mi-shima's lucid, kinetic imagery. "The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids...
...brutal war it is, too, masterminded in the conference rooms of conglomerates and waged in the trenches where producers, promoters, distributors, program directors and disk jockeys all snap and claw at the big sound-dollar. The battle rages continually around one crucial question: Is it a hit (ding!) or a miss (thud)? Since only one record in 25 gets a serious shot at survival, the odds are long; simply to break even, a single must sell 25,000 copies, an album 85,000. But then it takes only a couple of hits to compensate for dozens of dogs. This...