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Although Caddell carries a White House pass, he is not an official member of the President's staff. He relishes his role as a total outsider who has the President's ear. Says Caddell: "I give him ideas that he may not have heard from others." Caddell operates two polling firms out of Cambridge, Mass. One company is hired by politicians; the other supplies surveys to more than 20 major U.S. corporations for an annual fee of about $20,000 each. Caddell's reports to Carter use data from both firms, and the Democratic National Committee picks...
...some advice, the crusty Speaker, who has long called the new chief of staff "Hannibal Jerkin," scolded the White House aide about his failure to deal with Congress. Said the Speaker: "There should be close relations between the Congress and the man who has the President's ear. I've never understood why he wasn't at the leadership breakfasts." But by meeting's end O'Neill had turned avuncular, giving Jordan a list of names of Congressmen and key aides he should get to know. Concluded the Speaker: "Bygones are bygones...
Dire Straits: Communiqué (Warner Bros.) and The Cars: Candy-O (Elektra) are two follow-ups to albums that were large -and largely surprise-hits some months back. Both offer again pretty much the same bill of fare, without the single tune that snags your ear straight off and streamlines the journey to the Top Ten. The Cars, a Boston band, go big for flash, echo and cosmic inconclusion. Dire Straits are English and purvey a sort of oblique narrative rock so relaxed and laid back, with its easygoing guitar licks and sleepytime vocals, that the record could have been...
That poor mutt on the RCA label. For half a century he has been sitting by the victrola, one ear cocked to the horn, checking out the sounds with the same expression on his earnest face, as if he expected the machine to throw him a bone. He has weathered considerable changes: shellac to plastic; hand cranks to separate components; 78 to 45 to 33; mono to stereo and, most recently, a skirmish with quad. There is a revolutionary change coming up, however, that bids fair to wag his tail and pin his floppy ears back...
...author of the minor classic The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), still knows how to place surreal descriptions in the dialogue of his characters: "Marian looked like a small horse, perhaps a pony, who had read Vogue and believed it." And he has not lost his conductor's ear for the music and lilt of Boston Irish patois. Here the punch lines are stronger than the plot lines, but Higgins' characters are so shrewdly observed by Year's end, as Edgar confronts Peter, that it is impossible to disagree with his summary...