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Even with the best intentions on all sides, the question of how to fit all these varieties of strangers into a relatively coherent American society remains difficult. Linda Wong, a Chinese-American official of the Mexican- American Legal Defense and Education Fund, sees trouble in the racial differences. "There is concern among whites that the new immigrants may be unassimilable," says Wong. "Hispanics and Asians cannot melt in as easily, and the U.S. has always had an ambivalent attitude toward newcomers. Ambivalent at best, racist at worst...
...business and celebrity chronicler whose daughter Lizie, 18, herself a fledgling pop singer, helped him with his American Scene piece last February on the Grateful Dead. Says Skow, 53: "I am now one of the world's oldest Dead Heads." His TIME cover subjects include Model Cheryl Tiegs, Singer Linda Ronstadt and Actresses Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. Skow dined with Madonna and her band at Chez Helene in New Orleans and discovered "that we both liked Judy Holliday and soft-shell crabs...
...things are, Susan gives Madonna an audience she can't reach with MTV or disco. When she sings she lacks the all-there quality of a great pop singer like Linda Ronstadt or Tina Turner. She disguises this with vocal intensity and good dance moves. The kids are so caught up in their own emotional storms that they don't notice it, but in the love songs Madonna is not in love, and in the heat songs, like Burning Up, she is not in heat. But in the funny songs, like the pop reggae Material Girl, she is very funny...
...during lunch period. "Teenage drinking is definitely the biggest problem we now have in our schools," says Peggy Sapp, executive director of Informed Families of Dade County, Fla. "It's not just the idea of going out to have a drink. Now they are going out to get drunk." Linda Baron, a Miami drug-abuse specialist, says, "Sometimes we wonder which comes first: poor grades, poor relationships with families and low self-esteem, or teenage drinking problems...
This missing voice, however, did not create a void in the music. The ample harmonies of Christine Collister and Clive Gregson backing his own low growl, Thompson easily negotiated his way around the tough arrangements of songs like "Wall Of Death," from the last album he did with Linda, Shool Out The Lights. His eyes closed, his face grieving, he showed that he did not need his "better half" to continue the show he has run for the past twenty years...