Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlie Finch felt "all the candidates were alike, all super-slick," until he heard Fred Harris speak last year. The 1973 Yale graduate was impressed enough to quit his job as an Atlanta disc jockey and become a campus organizer in Harris's presidential campaign...
...settings. Because black and Hispanic children are a special concern, many of the shows are filmed in black areas or in the barrio. For example, at "Julio's Panaderia," a bakery in East Los Angeles, a Chicano family solves everyday problems with math. Coolidge Cool Breeze, a disc jockey on Factory, is a character designed to appeal to blacks. Dialing a number, Cool Breeze croons: "Might this be the home of Olive Crabtree? Can you tell me for one hundred big smackers what the answer is to eight times nine?" Olive is stumped. Viewers, however...
Jacques Villon. At the Fogg through February 29. Look at 1Le Jockey to understand Villon's conceptual complexity...
...Megaphone Mark Slackmeyer, an unregenerate campus radical, whose disapproving father rented his room when he left for college, and who gets a job as a disk jockey, reciting his own "Watergate Profiles" between platters ("Okay! Profile of John Dean III going out to Joey with hugs from Donna...
...diplomatic visit by Nixon and Kissinger to a distant and alien land: Watts. A number of papers dropped a recent strip in which Trudeau called President Ford's son Jack a "pothead." Trudeau's most inspired excess was the Nixon-era strip in which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of John Mitchell with the remark that "everything known to date could lead one to conclude that he's guilty. That's guilty, guilty, guilty!" Trudeau later explained that he was only trying to parody the hysteria of Nixon foes...