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...response to the U.S. message, Cedras promptly promoted several soldiers in a move the Bush administration represented as "disciplining." Not disciplining the army, though, but the people--several of these men were involved in Baby Doc's regime. A triumphant Haitian aristocrat announced in appropriately obscure language: "We are heading in the direction of absorbing this crisis." He is right...
...Reed has taken to setting down, in music, what amounts to speculative autobiography. This record has the brutal immediacy of a diary kept by someone who cannot look away from the truth. Magic and Loss, largely inspired by the death last year of Reed's friend, the superb songwriter Doc Pomus, uses spare instrumentation and simple language ("The same power that burned Hiroshima/ causing three-legged babies and death/ Shrunk to the size of a nickel/ to help him regain his breath") to stare down mortality and peek into the abyss. The title says it best. The subject is loss...
...generalized chaos and violence, they do not qualify for resident status. "In Haiti people are still free to practice their religion and to hold a job -- if they can find one," explains a State Department spokesman. In 1981 the Reagan Administration reached an agreement with Haitian dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier that permits -- but does not require -- the U.S. to return Haitians suspected of trying to illegally enter its territory, provided Haiti gives assurances that no reprisals will be taken against them. Through the end of 1990, more than 24,000 Haitian refugees were caught trying to enter...
JOHNNY ADAMS SINGS DOC POMUS: THE REAL ME (Rounder). Superb R. and B., recorded in New Orleans this past spring shortly before the death of the songwriter it does so proud. Doc Pomus, who wrote his fair share of classics (Save the Last Dance for Me, This Magic Moment), had a lyric finesse that could not only match but also bring out the best in his collaborators. Prominent among them was the estimable Dr. John, who co-wrote seven of these 11 cuts, all sung by Adams with a soul of fire...
...Middle East Restaurant-in Central Square in Cambridge. Call 354-8238. Wednesday: Hot Box with Devils Joking (ex-members of the 13th Floor Elevators and Rokey Ericson on Rave Records). Thursday: Gigolo Aunts Sugarboom and Small Factory. Saturday: Doc Nancy Ph.D. and Maniacal Choir. A 7 p.m. dinner show and at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday: Seven League Boots. All shows 18 and over...