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...competing with blacks in arenas where competence might be questioned." In other words, they are afraid that the blacks will outperform them. Yet Greentrees whites often imitate black mannerisms when playing with other whites. Reports Schafft: "Finger snapping and bottom twisting accompany a 'Hey, man, you're goin' get it!' or, looking at the floor, head tilted, a white child will do a short dance, just before the punch line of a joke...
...real treat of the album, however, for Dylan aficionados is the heretofore unrumored, un-bootlegged "Goin' to Acapulco." It is the lament of a somewhat aging rock star who can't get it up the way he used to, but that's o.k., he says, because Rosemary, his faithful groupie-girlfriend, will always be there to take care of him. "She puts it to me/Plain as day/And gives it to me for a song," he brags...
Again, as in "Goin' to Acapulco," Dylan is acting a part, and there is no actor anywhere better than Bob Dylan. When he asks rhetorically "Why am I always the one who must be the thief?" his voice seeps with the bitterness of a father cast as a villain when all he ever intended was love...
...greets Treemonisha's ascendancy to leadership is an arch of ribbons. Dancers with alligator and bear masks move in and out of the voodoo scene. Louis Johnson's choreography does have a touch of Broadway pizazz. But when those good plantation folks turn from corn husking to "goin' around" (square dancing), it is hard to believe that anything so bouncy could have been rehearsed, let alone laid out in advance. The performance benefits enormously from the authority of Betty Allen's Monisha and Willard White's Ned, not to mention Schuller's buoyant conducting...
...during a press conference in Port Arthur, Texas, the home town Joplin despised and always tried to conquer. On this occasion, Joplin had returned for her tenth high school reunion ("They laughed me out of the state," she announced on a Dick Cavett show, "and now I'm goin' back"). The questions the local press cooked up were trite-was Janis happy in school? Did she get in vited to the prom? But her answers, out of the direct pressures of the circumstances, were without artifice and painful...