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...memory of a powerful mother and the universal male frustration with women's naysaying to men's sexual overtures. Says Friday: "If he is careful, listens to the woman's rules and suppresses his anger, he will be rewarded with sex and love. It is the formula for masochism...
STEVE FORBERT'S ALBUM Jack Rabbit Slim is Bruce Springsteen street music thrown into a Barry Manilow package of syrrupy cliches. Forbert has the formula, the solo instrumentals, the rough voice and the street subjects, but these components lack Springsteen's raw spontaneity and power. Where Springsteen bursts with energy and originality Forbert wallows in the listless and trite...
...SCENARIO is almost too obvious: record executives hear the energy-packed Alive on Arrivaland construct the plastic formula enabling Forbert to become the Barry Manilow of the street-punk-rocker crowd. Alive on Arrival is an uncut gem. Unfortunately the attempted refinement of Jack Rabbit Slimmarred the original stone. Maybe next time Steve Forbert can restore...
...should remember--it is relatively easy for an Egyptian to accept the formula of "Peace with Israel"--but it is much more difficult and it is very different to accept a formula of "Israel instead of the Arabs". An Israeli professor, visiting Egypt, was told by a prominent Egyptian: "For 30 years you were all by youselves in a Ghetto. Now we are together with you in the same Ghetto...
...application of our general principle to the specific case of the Arab-Israeli dispute has several ramifications. Firstly, we must recognize that the Camp David formula, which treats the Palestinians as third party subsidiaries to a conflict in which they are principal protagonists, is fundamentally misconceived. Secondly, we must help to initiate a new peace process in which the Palestinians are guaranteed in advance the satisfaction of their right as a people--no less than any other people, including Jewish Israelis--to national self-determination. Moreover, this right must be extended to all Palestinians, whether in exile from their homeland...