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Buzzing Basses. Her new style is really not all that radical, considering the cross-fertilization of modes that country rock has brought in recent years. If Elton John or the Rolling Stones can dabble in country, why can't Dolly flirt with rock? She does it expertly, as her New Harvest album makes clear. Those pounding drums and buzzing electric basses on her own How Does It Feel do not disguise Dolly's country touch, just give it greater aural depth...
...other American cities. Boston, often cited as a "liveable" city, faces white flight, a narrowing tax base, a degenerating school system and the same economic problems (unemployment, loss of business) plaguing the rest of New England. Lupo asks, quite rightly, "If such a place is allowed to flirt so closely with disaster, then what can the message be for the great urban centers of this republic?" Liberty's Chosen Home offers no master plan for change, but Lupo argues that unless the federal government faces up to its responsibilities in urban centers and the suburbs end their hostility...
...article on Linda Ronstadt would have been complete with a centerfold-perhaps of Formidable Flirt Linda seducing a priest...
...enforcement officials deny that the decision, which reinforced a similar one in 1973, has led to an upsurge in police tactics that flirt with entrapment. Nonetheless, the techniques employed have grown more imaginative, and there is often great care taken to avoid entrapment. A Chicago undercover man, Joseph Saladino, is perhaps the nation's champion operative in the field. While he says "there's no way I can suggest the crime," he has managed to get hired as, among other things, a hit man, a getaway-car driver and an enforcer-and then to nail his employers with...
...paternal arm around a female's shoulder without seeming too forward. If she returned the gesture, the scene would become an embarrassment or a joke; only by this reversal would its essential presumptuousness or plain silliness come out. A woman who acts this way might be tagged a flirt--a demeaning way of putting her on guard...