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...state-of-the-art in Black music, and there are no Black New Wave bands outside of the ska revivol and no prominent Black rock critics and few white disco bands; b) disco remains the most popular music in America, despite critical limousines rushing it to the grave, as is evidenced by the playlists of the largest AM radio stations, the Number One hit of the summer, "Funkytown," and the continued success reported by discos across the county. Rock critics dislike disco because it is essentially sensual of affective music completely dissociated from the cerebral cortex; it is anti-intellectual...
...failure to understand fully the importance of the precise use of language in discussing the exercise of power has been a grave weakness of all the recent American presidential pretenders. Two weeks ago, Ronald Reagan was trying to put his China genie back in the bottle. He was not even sure what he had said that got him into trouble, and at one point in a press conference argument about having government-to-government relations with Taiwan, Reagan confessed: "I don't know. I don't know that I said that or not, ah, I, I really...
Winter, however, is not the only grave matter that the New Hampshireman finds to brood about in the gentle weeks that follow the summer solstice. True, the presidential campaign is not a matter for concern. We did our best in the New Hampshire primary to warn the nation of the perils that lay ahead, by picking Carter and Reagan. If the nation went ahead and picked Carter and Reagan anyway, despite our effort to sound the alarm, that is no business of ours...
...workers' bold challenge raised grave questions that went far beyond Poland's borders. What effect might the turmoil have on other Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe? Might Moscow's own dominoes begin to topple? Would the Soviets, despite their entanglement in Afghanistan, send tanks rolling into Warsaw, as they did into rebellious Budapest in 1956 and Prague twelve years later? If so, how could the West?and particularly the U.S.?respond...
...then threatened with a bogus rape indictment; Vaughn Leland (Dennis Patrick), J.R.'s banker, who was ruined when he bought into a Ewing double-deal; Bobby Ewing, whom J.R.'s dastardly business ethics finally drove from Southfork; and Cliff Barnes, who swore on his daddy's grave that he would avenge the family honor and "stop J.R. for good...