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DIED. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 41, blind jazz musician famed for his ability to play three instruments simultaneously; of as yet undetermined causes; in Bloomington, Ind. Kirk played the manzello (a quasi-saxophone), the stritch (a horn resembling a dented blunderbuss) and the tenor sax together, combining themes of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos, Atonalist Arnold Schonberg and Bassist Charlie Mingus...
Hare Krishna Santa Clauses, a prefabricated creche, plastic lights and boughs, and a lone Salvation Army horn player are ushering in the Christmas spirit and trying to throw Cambridge shoppers into a buying frenzy...
...Leonid Brezhnev and was refused the heavy weapons he sought. Barre then visited Saudi Arabia, whose leaders had been trying to woo him away from Moscow for at least three years as part of their anti-Communist strategy to reinforce moderate regimes along the Red Sea and on the Horn of Africa. Barre came away from Jeddah with a reported promise of $300 million; in return, he presumably promised the Saudis that he would get rid of the Russians in his own good time...
...when next spring rolls around, the baseball team might not provide the only action in town. Head down to the River and listen; Horn is convinced his sailors will be happily sounding...
...Elvis is King," and Costello himself feering out from a lurid yellow background. He clutches a Fender menacingly, and leans forward in that half-aggressive pigeon-toed stance so dear to the hearts of '50s rockers; his eyes are genuinely loony, wild and dangerous-looking, behind huge Buddy Holly horn-rims. No doubt about it--this guy is strange. Musically, too, the album has more than its share of outward cliches, from Phil Spectorish drum riffs to high-school rhythm guitar licks and doo-sop backing vocals...