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Herring gulls may have some attraction for birders; to the Fisherman they amount to rats with wings. He rings in Ogden Nash for support: "Hark to the whimper of the sea-gull;/ He weeps because he's not an ea-gull./ Suppose you were, you silly sea-gull,/ Could you explain it to your she-gull...
Washington political satirists, the Capitol Steps, will be on tap: "Hark, when Gerald Ford was king,/ We were bored with everything./ Unemployment 6%./ What a boring President./ Nothing major needed fixin'/ So he pardoned Richard Nixon." House Speaker Tip O'Neill is coming from the capital. Mercifully, he promises not to sing. Ford will wander in with his old football helmet under his arm, the one Lyndon Johnson claimed Ford never wore...
...when a lot of rock has slipped into neutral, a glorification of rough-and-tumble spirit when much of the Top Ten has all the aggression of a goose-down quilt. "Through the '70s, people became isolated," Kempner reflects. "They became isolated from their music, from their government. We hark back to an older tradition. We have something to say to the people who listen...
Boris Becker, the 17-year-old West German who is considered the most dangerous nonsked in the draw returned to center stage and completed his unfinished mater against American Hark Plaster...
...Hark! The Herald Angels...