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University Health Services (UHS) yesterday distributed care packages with chewing gum, lollipops and information on how to quit smoking as Harvard took part in the American Cancer Society's 13th annual Great American Smokeout...
...give credit where credit is due, Williams does have the ability to write a seemingly infinite number of similarly insipid bubble-gum pop tunes about unrequited love. Clever listeners will note that every one of the five Jerry Williams songs on Journeyman covers this topic, each with an equal lack of depth. And if these songs do not sound particularly fresh, that may be because four of the five were written at various times between 1985 and 1988, during the August and Behind the Sun recording sessions...
...just might think you're listening to an old Bluesbreakers tune. But you're not. Eric Clapton's Journeyman has planted him firmly in the 1980s world of synthesizers and drum kits. The few blues songs that prop up this album seem sadly anachronistic in an arena of bubble gum...
...charm of our suite is of a different nature: it comes from the preponderance of wires and masking tape covering every otherwise-spare surface. We thought that poster gum might look better than masking tape, but it just didn't hold the wire...
...hope, however, is not lost. In true Hollywood fashion, the heroine enters to save the day. Michelle Pfeiffer stumbles in, three hours late, with broken shoes and a mouthful of chewing gum. She is Suzie Diamond, an entrancing former employee of the Triple A Escort Service. Tired of being the glittering wrist ornament of shoe vendors and lug-wrench magnates, Suzie hopes a nightclub microphone can lead her to a better life...