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...just re-issued the New York Dolls' two albums, self-titled and Too Much Too Soon. The Dolls were "ahead of their time," and sometimes too out of control for their own good. This is raucous stuff, and lead singer David JoHansen sings of love, drugs, and insanity from firsthand knowledge. Don't be put off by the transvestite image; this is great rock and rool. "Personality Crisis" and the Bo Diddley song "Pills" from the first album, and the remake of "Stranded in the Jungle" on the second are the best, but there's oodles of fun for everyone...
...teen-agers who come to the concerts-and at some shows they make up the majority of the audience-this tour is a way to ease into the slipstream of a myth, to check it out firsthand. For their elders, who were teen-agers when the Stones first sang Play with Fire and Satisfaction and Jumpin' Jack Flash back in the high '60s, it is a way-for some, now, the only way-to rejustify and perpetuate the myth. The Rolling Stones are living out, maybe stringing out, the legend, coasting, even capitalizing on it. But the foundation...
Various slides provide the perceptive skidder with firsthand knowledge of the battle between gravity and friction. By plunging into a sea of green plastic balls, the playful student can know what it feels like to be a mutated molecule in a densely packed universe...
Charles was a very young firsthand witness to that reappraisal; Diana was a child of it. Despite the prevailing celebratory colors, this wedding suggested-in Fowles' sense -an especially English occasion...
...story was researched by Heyden White and written by Associate Editor George Russell, who was Buenos Aires bureau chief for two years before returning last March to New York as a writer. Russell, who was able to draw on his own firsthand experiences, sees no early end to Argentina's problems. Says he: "Military dictatorships are never very happy, and Argentina is a sad and troubled country. I fear it's going to remain sad and troubled for quite some time." McWhirter saw nothing to contradict that judgment...