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UPON FIRST LISTENING, you might think that side one is just some variations on a repetitive theme. Second listening might lend the same impression. Eventually "Cross-eyed and Painless" (the first single to be released) and "The Great Curve" emerge as the kind of songs Byrne was looking for: a driving variation of funk with lyrics almost as entertaining as those of Parliament-- "The world moves on a woman's hips, the world moves and it swivels and bops." Unfortunately, "Born Under Punches," like "Seen and Not Seen" on side two, is a victim of the risk that Byrne took...
...gloriously feisty moments. When Ben derogatorily remarks that he doesn't "have any idea what the hell turns her on," she apologizes for giving him "more trouble than the groupies do." A few more well-placed retorts might have succeeded in giving Kate enough self-assertiveness to lend her vulnerability its intended poignancy...
FAULT, OF COURSE, is in the eye of the beholder; but ominous changes in the state of the Jamaican economy since Manley tried to "challenge the power of the Western economic structure" with his form of democratic socialism lend credence to the writing on the walls. The average Jamaican is now 25-per-cent worse off than he was in 1973--and this is an economy which had managed to maintain a high annual growth rate of nearly five per cent throughout the 1960s. Under Manley's system of "land reform," production of agricultural goods declined dramatically, and farm exports...
...real meaning of the meeting lay in the apparent decision of the P.L.O. leader to make so conciliatory a gesture at this time. Even to some Israelis, the incident tended to lend credence to a telling public remark made by Morocco's King Hassan II last week. The P.L.O., said Hassan, was ready at long last to accept the existence of Israel "within secure and recognized boundaries," if Israel would agree to similar recognition of a Palestinian state. Said Uri Avnery, a prominent leftist member of the Knesset: "This has been in the works for years...
Subtitled "A Sort of a Love Story," Still Life With Woodpecker tangentially concerns itself with the romantic woes of Leigh-Cheri Furstenberg-Barcelona, a princess from some made-up nation who resides in exile in Seattle with her parents. Having concluded that World Causes lend meaning and satisfaction to life (love had given her only an abortion and a miscarriage), Leigh-Cheri journies to Maui to attend the Geo-Therapy Care Fest, where she meets the other mouthpiece for Robins's thoughts, Bernard Mickey Wrangle, alias the Woodpecker. Wrangle, who has come to Maui to bomb the Fest, teaches...