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Just another night in Los Angeles, when the flotsam of the California shores washes up on Sunset Strip: pimps, whores, bikers and the occasional maniac. Nighttown always threatens to burst into a conflagration of libidos, and the only firemen in sight are the seen-it-all plainclothesmen of the vice squad. They know every hooker they bust will be out on bail, back on her back within an hour and any felonious punk can plea-bargain grand-theft-auto down to a citation for speeding. The vice squad is not expected to put out the fire, just to keep...
...although the language is sometimes painfully sophomoric, the message scattershot and blurred, one' has to admire Papas for attempting the overwhelming task of staging her own show. While the production carries flaws aplenty, it still makes for pleasant relief from the hackneyed productions of traditional shows that constitute the flotsam and jetsam of Harvard theatre. There's much naivete in Hair, but there's a lot of creativity too. Papas & Co., including the staff of the Institute, have to be admired for making a start toward establishing a tradition of orginial shows that try to convey a real message...
...With the flotsam out of the way, one can concentrate on the Metamatic's real successes. The single drawn from the album, "Underpass," has steadily climbed the British charts, and it's easy to see why. Five steady synthesized beats enter over a shifting electronic hum, and then all hell breaks loose. A six-note phrase is repeated on two different scales at breakneck pace. Echoes and imitations emerge from behind the phrase's hidden contours. Amidst this turmoil, Foxx delivers the verses, in mechanized fashion with metallic overtones, and screams the chorus from a world away. "Underpass" beats recent...
Much of the easier, partly cosmetic work has been accomplished. The globs of oil, the multicolored industrial discharges, the flotsam from shoreline cities, the fecal and bacterial wastes are no longer dumped in the lakes in vast quantities. According to the International Joint Commission, the group overseeing the U.S.-Canadian agreements to clean up the waters, more than 600 of the 864 major dischargers into the Great Lakes now meet the tough new water-quality regulations. In the past ten years U.S. and Canadian municipalities have spent more than $5 billion to improve sewage treatment plants. Industries, often prod...
...national guardsmen, who are not considered front-line troops. Their air force consists of five squadrons of American-made F-5Es and obsolescent British Lightnings of 1950s vintage. Their navy consists of a converted U.S. Coast Guard cutter, three Jaguar-class PT boats and a few other bits of flotsam and jetsam. When they look south, the Saudis are alarmed by the rising Soviet influence across the Red Sea in Ethiopia, where there are now 16,000 Cuban soldiers supporting the leftist regime in Addis Ababa, and about 1,000 Russians. The Marxist regime of South Yemen, which has occasionally...