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...Junk mail" last week confronted the Supreme Court with a familiar task: how to resolve a clash between competing constitutional values. Do publishers and other senders have a free-speech right to seek an audience by mailing unsolicited advertisements? Or do recipients have a prior right of privacy that allows them to bar the stuff that floods their mailboxes...
...challengers claimed that the law violates their constitutional right to communicate. Moreover, they argued, the law threatens all "junk mail"-not just erotic material. Indeed, the Post Office concedes that some of the 290,000 objectors who have invoked the statute have claimed to be aroused by ads that merely pictured girdles or bed sheets...
Such absurdity-in a city with one of the highest crime rates in the nation-finally moved Interior Secretary Walter Hickel to plead with Congress to junk the law. Meantime, a district court judge has put a strict construction on the old law, allowing that it applies only to Old Washington and Georgetown. Thus kites may be flown freely without fear of arrest in Rock Creek Park, Mains Point and other neutral zones...
...train ride to Suffolk Downs Race Track isn't much. You take the blue line out from Government Center and roll past the sleek silver cylinders nosing down at the Airport, the junk-covered beaches of Wood Island, and the abandoned playgrounds of Orient Heights...
Overall, the new album is good McCartney-clever, varied, full of humor -but it is nothing to match his past pop classics, particularly Yesterday, Michele and Hey, Jude. His lyrics are best when least pretentious, as in Junk, a kind of sentimental word jamboree: "Bye, bye, says the sign in the shop window/ Why, Why, says the junk in the yard." Maybe I'm Amazed, however, is a pale echo of the choral sumptuousness of McCartney's The End, which served as the coda to Abbey Road, the hit 1969 Beatle album...