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...daily grind of hearings under bright television lights is hard even for younger members of the committee. Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, 48, feels fatigued at the end of the day and suffers from severe headaches. Ervin seems to be surviving well. He husbands his strength. Ervin and his wife of 49 years, Margaret, still live as quietly as ever in their two-bedroom apartment a few hundred yards from the Capitol. The Ervins have been forced to get an unlisted phone number. The Senator still goes to sleep at his customary 11 p.m. He gets...
...Simon's new book is called No Island Is an Island (Doubleday; $8.95), and it argues vehemently that the convulsive growth of recent years "will homogenize" the Vineyard, "grind its character to mediocrity, and make the place indistinguishable from the brutally overdeveloped mainland coast." The book shows that when developers turned toward the island at the beginning of this decade, the Vineyard was completely unprepared to hold them back: zoning laws were inadequate, the Vineyard's economy had become dependent on tourism or summer residents, and local governments had not thought to plan ahead. Many year-round Vineyard...
MUCH more serious, though, is that Susan Sontag still appears to be one of those people more interested in Making Movies than in making a particular movie. She has no religious anguish to purge, no personal vision to express, no political axe to grind. This makes for wonderful objectivity, but it also makes for emotional sterility...
...tune is very well mixed, so if you listen through headphones you can hear Muldaur's glassy slide guitar on the left channel and Amos Garrett's lead guitar on the right, both in conversation with Paul's biting harp way up in the mix. Muldaur and Butterfield grind out the vocals una voce and, in the company of Maria Muldaur's (Geoff's wife) restrained fiddle, the band displays one of the best personal interpretations of Delta blues that has come out in a long time...
...Does the grind of the tour get you down? (Mentally yes. Physically no.) Wasn't Lesley Hunt a tough first round draw? (She certainly was. That's the luck of the draw. Tomorrow I've got Kerry Harris in the second round, and last week I played her in the finals...