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...kitsch of the season is Dime-Store Days (Penguin; 128 pages; $12.95) by Lester Glassner and Brownie Harris. Lovingly assembled by a five-and-ten freak and movie junkie, this compendium of glittering gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...
...none of John Rockwell's "This writer" bullshit, none of Kit Rachlis' ludicrous over-intellectualization, none of Dave Marsh's brash favoritism (who likes Beaver Brown, but not the Clash!), etc. When Rolling Stone has grown more and more uncool, the Voice quietly retains its cool, thanks to Lester Bangs and Mr. Christgau. This book is hardly comprehensive, nore objective, but it doesn't and couldn't try to be. He loves enough types of music--Reggae, Soul, Punk, and Rock and Roll--and listens to enough music (14 hours a day, brag his zealous press releases) to at least...
...Lester Parker--Springfield's, 1369 Cambridge St., Inman Square...
Despite the rising productivity of blue collar workers and the declining productivity of managers, as documented by MIT economist Lester Thurow, union members are being asked to bear the brunt of America's economic decline. Though many workers have risen to middle class stature and find the PATCO strike distasteful, the business-labor alliance may not last long at all. Washington's September 19 Solidarity Day is the first symbolic hint of these shifting winds...
...passion since childhood and the source of his nickname in a bestselling book about his spy exploits. FBI agents also suspected that Boyce was involved in a series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. A suspicious title switch on a boat license turned up the name Anthony E. Lester, of Beaver, a small town 50 miles west of Port Angeles. The photograph on Lester's driver's license resembled Boyce-and the man snapped on bank film during at least one holdup. The investigators descended on Beaver and learned that Lester had bought a 30-ft. boat...