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...antique Midwestern vocabulary ("hen fruit," "on the fritz") is intact; and if his optimism is a bit white at the temples, it still goads him on. But Reinhart ultimately comes to believe that life's meaning can be boiled down to the profound couplet: "Nothin' says lovin'/ Like something from the oven." The transformation has affected his creator as well. The tortuous and arcane language Berger displayed in Neighbors has been effectively streamlined. It now breaks for self-examination: "It was ridiculous that I lived almost half a century trying to measure up to the principles...
...musicians, rock critics and Tom Wolfe (in one of his best pieces of razzmatazz, The First Tycoon of Teen). The vaulting arrangements and majestic delirium of songs such as Be My Baby and He's a Rebel and River Deep-Mountain High and You 've Lost That Lovin' Feeling have been endlessly imitated. They have never been equaled, except by Spector himself. Outside attempts to duplicate "the Spector wall of sound" only ring hollow, like a Salvation Army rock band playing in a subway tunnel. What is clear, past all the self-perpetuating mythology, is that Phil...
Also mired in the crude is a slick performance by Marilyn B. Johnson as Jewel, the brothel's caretaker. In a rousing number, she tells the houses residents that she gives away for free what they sell. "Twenty four hours of Lovin''' sends you reeling in a steamy frenzy; it's Whorehouse at its best. Alas, Johnson is also a stereotype: she is black. So one thing stands out about Whorehouse: this celebration of Texas is a mere confirmation of the rest of America's suspicions. If you're easily offended, don't go. But, great gushers...
DIED. Minnie Riperton, 30, pop singer and songwriter, best known for the international hit Lovin' You (1975); of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Kansas City (They got a crazy way of lovin' there and I'm gonna get me some). They wrote it. And Charlie Brown (Who walks in the classroom cool and slow?/ Who calls the English teacher "Daddy-O"?). They wrote that too. As well as Searchin'. And Poison Ivy (You 're gonna need an ocean/ Of Calamine lotion ...). And Smokey Joe's Cafe. And Yakety Yak. And Saved...