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...Frischmann's songs are less lighthearted than they were five years ago. On Car Song, a cut off the first album, she sang, "In every little Honda/ There may lurk a Peter Fonda." Now when she sings, "Baby put your arms around me/ Aren't you glad that you have found me?" on the cacophonous Generator, she sounds like she knows what it is to feel undesirable. Elastica 2000 may not be as witty as Elastica 1995, but Frischmann's new vulnerability is winning enough to fend off VH1 has-been status for at least another five years...
...images are indelible, in history and in movies: Henry Fonda agitating for farmworkers' rights in The Grapes of Wrath; Sally Field leading the textile workers in Norma Rae; even the young Marlon Brando finally realizing, in On the Waterfront, that good union guys could overcome corrupt union leaders. As Woody Guthrie songs were the sound track of America's organized working class, the movies offered snapshots of blue-collar heroism...
...Fonda's Unsettling Past...
...Last Wednesday, Harvard hosted Jane Fonda, an active supporter of America's totalitarian opponent in the Vietnam conflict (News, March 16). On Thursday, Harvard hosted Patrick Buchanan, a controversial politician with unpopular views (News, March 17). The contradiction in student reaction to the speeches and in your coverage of the speeches amazes me. Attendees of Fonda's speech warmly received her, and never questioned her about her actions in support of Ho Chi Minh and North Vietnam. Similarly, the news article neglected to mention that aspect of her past. Buchanan, on the other hand, was widely protested, and audience members...
...controversy over Buchanan stems from his words, not his actions. Fonda, on the other hand, acted not only against policy but against American servicemen. North Vietnamese propagandists photographed her posing with North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns that had been used to shoot down American pilots. She visited North Vietnamese prison camps at which hundreds of American veterans have reported being tortured by their captors...