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...trivial. Even her back-up band, Elephant's Memory, is approximately infinitely better than the material deserves. I wouldn't mind that Ono can't include even two enjoyable sides of music in a four-sided album. I wouldn't mind that she sings only stiff manifestos, enigmatic drivel, sentimental nonsense, or primal screams. What I do mind is a person who can use her connections to rip off the public and then pose as a liberator. Few other people could foist this embarrassment upon an audience, while far more talented people go unheard...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Ono-nism | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...favorites among Smither's songs include the title cut and "I Feel The Same," both of which are dominated by Smither's acoustic and John Bailey's electric guitars. Smither is about the only folk writer I've heard who writes about loneliness without ever reverting to romantic drivel or embarassing self-pity. One key to his success over a wide range of moods is a sense of humor that keeps him from taking his crises too seriously...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Folk and Country: Now More Than Ever | 1/26/1973 | See Source »

...mostly by civilian students, and it was being read largely by military and naval personnel. Editors were out of touch with their readers. There came a point where most of the stories were of no interest, or very little interest, to the majority of readers, who were appeased with drivel written by their own representatives. To wit, this is from Scuttlebut...

Author: By James G. Trager jr., | Title: The Service News: Exodus of '43 | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

Harvard has a tradition of blowing more games over the course of the long season than teams with comparable talent. This is generally attributed to a lack of personal discipline on the part of Harvard's players and the usual drivel that I and others cough up about Harvard being such a diverse, distracting place. The depth provided by Harvard's wealth of good sophomores will test that explanation this year, because for once Harvard has the depth to pick up the slack if some of the super-stars get tired at mid-season, which is when Harvard usually starts...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: On the Bench | 12/9/1972 | See Source »

...Russells hands Gaudier Brzeska's life history has become the means to exploit in a richer vein Hollywood drivel about driven genius. His Graudier Brzeska is Artiste Extraordinaire; sacreligious, spontaneous ironic, innocent; ahead his time and shunned for flouting truth that shock prevailing social mores Russell films a disconnected string of melodramatic conceits to give us this bravura story of genius martyred through the neglect of bourgeois complacency...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: The Savage Messiah | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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