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...Skinny, no-talent stupid Hoboken bastard," she replied. Whap! She may be the only soul, living or dead, who comes out of Kitty Kelley's gritty biography of Frank Sinatra looking wholesome. That includes two U.S. Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, who cheapened their office by pal-ling around with Sinatra, the noted entertainer, bully and bar fighter who had another treasured friend in former Chicago Mafia Don Sam Giancana...
Boston Symphony Orchestra: with guest conductor Jahja Ling, Symphony Hall...
...year before that, but their only response was a stereophonic yawn. The women of the P.M.R.C. fired off a strong letter to the Recording Industry Association of America, an organization whose most prominent responsibility is to certify record sales. They also arranged for an interdenominational minister named Jeff Ling ("I am to religion what a free agent is to football") to put on an audiovisual show of rock naughtiness in Washington in May. Capital movers and shakers shifted in their seats while Ling read from the works of Judas Priest. Not long after, the women heard from RIAA President Stanley...
...warnings because it did not want to ruffle feathers while lobbying for passage of a bill that would place a surcharge on the manufacture of home recording equipment and blank tape. Gortikov denies such charges and instead talks generally about "de facto censorship" and "the possible dilution of rights." Ling, now a consultant for the P.M.R.C., asserts that "any artist who is a true artist won't care about a rating." Singers and songwriters have other ideas. "I feel more akin to the rebels than the reverends," says John Fogerty. "This whole thing sounds kind of dangerous...
That quality has helped him weather a recent ebbing of confidence in his government. First came the revelation last January that military intelligence officers played a role in the 1984 death of Henry Liu, a Chinese-American writer who was murdered in his California home. Vice Admiral Wang Hsi-ling, former head of the Defense Ministry's intelligence bureau, was convicted in June of plotting Liu's death. Along with two gangsters who carried out the murder, Wang was given a life sentence. The trials were unusually open for Taiwan, but many felt that the harsh punishment was intended largely...