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...their songwriting still must catch up with their playing. In a recent radio interview, Belmont admitted it takes him six months to write a song. That would have worked in the sixties, when the singles were the dominant mode, but not now. Where Rockpile elevates old tunes like Fats Domino's "I Hear You Knocking" to new fame, the Rumour drags down Manfred Mann's "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine" into the dust heap. The tackiness of the album cover is a joke, but one that will hurt them in this country; Americans don't like being...
...become known as an evangelical Christian who crusades against abortion. Over the past two years, Koop, 64, has toured the country with a 17-hour multimedia presentation called "Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" It denounces abortion, the loss of family values, euthanasia and infanticide. Says he: "The first domino to fall was abortion on demand, and it has split the country as has no other issue since the practice of slavery...
...Salvadorean struggle: the "far left versus far right" scheme, and the spectre of Soviet and Cuban power, the first theme, ingenious as it is, has largely failed; the Reagan Administration, therefore, is pushing the public's fear of communism panic button, hoping to activate a resurgence of the popular domino theory...
...Though the opera could open its doors soon after a settlement, it is unlikely to do so unless an agreement is reached quickly. Lead singers were released from their contracts on Sept. 30, and many of them doubtless will sign with other companies. "You could get a domino situation," says Baritone Sherrill Milnes. "The famous tend to bump the less famous, all down the line." After another dispute with the orchestra that led to a three-month shutdown in 1969, the Met did start up in midseason. But its performances suffered because many leading singers had already signed elsewhere. This...
...hopping until midnight. Then veteran R&B performer Roy Brown takes the stage with his group of crusty black musicians. Waits moves from the entrance way to the dance floor. This is what he came to hear. Roy Brown's sax player, Lee Allen, used to play with Fats Domino -- one of Waits' heroes...