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Baseball's Cinderella team this season is the Texas Rangers. With second-year Rightfielder Jeff Burroughs leading the majors in RBIs and Ferguson Jenkins winning 21 games, last year's cellar dwellers have stubbornly pursued the Oakland A's. It would take a miracle, though, for Texas to catch the world champions. The A's have the pitching and long-ball power to run away in the West. Catfish Hunter had already won 20 games when September began, and Ken Holtzman is rapidly closing in on the mark. In Sal Bando, Reggie Jackson and Joe Rudi...
...offer the inspirational presences of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. But from the point of view of new sounds, freedom and plain musical fun, Austin now definitely ranks as No. 1. Within the past two years, following the lead of such veterans as Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker, more than 200 musicians, vocalists and songwriters have moved to the Texas capital. Since last spring, three new country-music clubs have been built, and this month a converted movie palace will open as the Austin Ritz, a 700-seat theater devoted to country rock. The city...
...when a woman leaves, they survive. Michael Murphey is the most articulate lyricist. His new album contains a tune called Holy Roller, a tongue-in-cheek paean to Bible Belt religion that obliquely speaks to the question of loss of faith. Without doubt, the quintessential country rocker is Jerry Jeff Walker. His songs tend to be unpretentious autobiographical celebrations. For Jerry Jeff, life is "running naked in that high-hill country rain," and his spontaneity is the antithesis of the calculated Nashville sound...
...course, there is also the lunatic fringe. Hard-core addicts are not content merely to enjoy the music; they devote their time and salaries to Beatle trivia. Jeff Symes is a pious Beatle person. He claims everything reminds him of The Beatles: He can't look at breakfast without remembering that the original title of "Yesterday" was "Scrambled Eggs." "My room is four walls of inch to inch Beatles. My Mom won't let me put things on the ceiling yet. Someday, I'll put it all in a museum...
What revelation there is likely to be from Nicholson will come from the screen. When Nicholson first began to make real progress in acting class, Jeff Corey noted that he excelled at an exercise called "abandonment," where all the stops are pulled out and only raw emotional truth-or the impression of it -remains. This is a difficult exercise for actors because they tend to take it too literally and lose control. There must be some calculation always working, some closed-off part that remains unmoved. For the same reason Nicholson's scenes of anger (particularly in Five Easy...