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...best jailbait voice, "Do it to me again and again." Her latest hit, taken from her platinum album, Live and More, is a discofied rendering of Jimmy L. Webb's Mac Arthur Park, in which Donna can rise above the hot-pants reveries of her earlier work into the headier regions of post-psychedelic poesy. Try this: "Someone left the cake out in the rain/ I don't think that I can take it/ 'Cause it took so long to make it/ And I'll never have the recipe again...
That song made Bob Seger a national star after a decade of hard traveling. Now he has a fine new record, Stranger in Town, out just a few weeks and already following an unerring trajectory to the headier regions of the charts. It should prove that this particular local boy is not only a national star but something of a vital natural resource...
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Overall, Carter's governorship was a success because of his skilled balancing of traditional and emerging political forces in Georgia. "He cloaked liberalism in conservative jargon," says a state official. Carter promoted his social programs as an extension of the Gospel: problem-solving combined with Christian charity. In headier moments, he compared his actions to Christ's ministry to the suffering. It was an extravagant analogy, but politically it worked. Carter gave to the poor without overly offending the well-to-do, conquered without excessively dividing...
Despite the heavy traffic in No-Doz and coffee, a dealer in headier stay-up drugs claims that the demand for speed seems to have dropped this year. (Although marijuana use is steady: "There will always be people who want a quality high.") According to the dealer, the dropoff in speed consumption is noticeable both at Harvard and Radcliffe. "People want one or two hits to write a paper, but no one's buying in quantity...