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Inside, the bar was done up Mafia-surreal: big horse-shoe-shaped counter, color t.v. competing with the jukebox in the corner, indoor-outdoor carpet on the floor. A beer cost $2.25. Men in lime-green leisure suits and white patent leather loafers whose porcine faces bulged behind drugstore sunglasses, nodded at us and cackled in a far booth. We took our beers to the cool, shaded back...
...California restaurant owner complained of a 40% drop in business. At a Harlem tavern in New York City, patrons insisted that the jukebox be turned off while they discussed the TV program they had just watched; in Los Angeles, the owner of one discotheque closed down operations altogether. The reason: last week's twelve-hour dramatization of Alex Haley's book Roots...
...Port Arthur, Texas, a shabby, humid oil-refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico. His father, Ernest Rauschenberg, was the son of an immigrant doctor from Berlin who had drifted to southern Texas and married a Cherokee. Port Arthur was no cultural center. Its symphony orchestra was the jukebox, the comics its museum. The nearest thing to art one could see was the cheap chromo-litho holy cards pinned up in the Rauschenberg living room (the whole family was devoutly active in the local Church of Christ). Decades later Rauschenberg would allude to the gaudy iconic nostalgia of those cards...
RECORDS. Composers-but not performers or record companies-will receive an increase in the compulsory royalty. On a record no more than five minutes long, for instance, the composer will get 2¾? instead of 2? for each distributed recording. Jukebox owners will also have to pay a new $8 annual licensing fee that will be divided among eligible composers...
...center of Harvard drinking activity, but got moved to this rather odd location when Harvard decided to go bureacratic. It's usually pretty empty now, and is always quiet (particularly because the high booths and ferocious waitresses don't invite rowdiness), but it has a great jukebox--one which you can hear, a distinct difference from the music at 33 Dunster Street, where they play good music but you can barely hear the person next to you, much less the music...