Word: fabianism
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...which began organizing four months ago at Tufts, is represented on 15 college campuses nationwide and hopes to become an international organization. Tufts coordinator Fabian Bachrach said yesterday. The bipartisan group has at least five Harvard members, most of whom are Conservative Club members, Sauter said...
...that has just swallowed something huge. The people born during the baby boom form a large group that comes between two periods of baby bust: the Depression and the 1970s. The boom is slowly working its way through society, and is now reaching the center point. Says Consumer Researcher Fabian Linden: "The baby-boom generation is not some esoteric Indian tribe but is now the hard core, the mainstream, of the population...
...classic point to be made about American pop music is that so many types of music emerged with so few lines in common. Bakshi seems to realize this, putting Scott and Janis Joplin, Fabian, and Lou Reed songs in the same movie. But by trying to make more connections than actually exist, he stretches the attractive canvas he has drawn into a demented and confused statement, encompassing family, war, drugs, love, and music, but saying nothing about them...
...want to relive those glory days in a movie theater? Then go straight to a revival of The Girl Can't Help It or The T.A.M.I. Show, because The Idolmaker is something else, and less. I recalls one withered branch of pop nostalgia: the South Philly sound of Fabian and Frankie Avalon, which is to genuine early rock as Fritos are to grits. Frankie sang of Dede Dinah and sounded like the revenge of the adenoids. Fabian, legend has it, could sing on key only on alternate Thursdays, and his records were said to be creative sutures of dozens...
...Bronx, the characters are Italian, the language is coarse, but the story is one long, carefully embroidered cliche that has its roots in Berkeley's old Warner Bros, musicals. Ray Sharkey has the Warner Baxter role: the tough, brilliant old pro. Peter Gallagher is the ghost of Fabian with the soul of Ruby Keeler: the lucky, plucky ingenue. Sharkey nurses and rehearses his protege, shouts and seduces, puts him through heck and then shoves him onstage. Sure enough: Gallagher goes out there a young ster, but he comes back a star...