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Colson apparently satisfied Nixon's yen for macho operators. He was one of those who talked of "playing hardball" for keeps, and hostile outsiders were not his only targets. He, along with Haldeman, cracked down on more genteel staffers like Communications Director Herb Klein. Though a Nixon friend for more than 20 years, Klein finally resigned. Everything Contrived. His most important role was as a resourceful if unscrupulous political operator. Colson took on the tough jobs for the President. He leaked damaging or misleading information to the press about people who criticized the President, had young men hired...
...political content is laughable: the only idea embodied by Jimmy Cliff is something along the lines of "You Can Get It If You Really Want (but you must try, try, try...)." It's hard to know whether the cardboard villains are foiled by capitalistic perseverance, a few wellplaced macho knife slashes, or the kind of depressing mysticism that responds to oppression by chanting "forgive them Lord they know not what they do (oo-wah-oo)." Although the theme is similar, and the music also the focal point, the 44 minutes of A Well Spent Life, which precede The Harder They...
...song starts and Jennings and his harp players weave a bluesy exchange through the sameness. Joining them is a superb pedal steel, a rhythm guitar and Jennings on lead. The tunes are written by and large by Billy Joe Shaver--one of the best--and they're basically macho stuff, about outlaws and boozers and a woman associated with every town. But anyone accustomed to country music has gotten over that by now. Waylon Jennings's act is one of the few fine ones left in Nashville, merging country and rock, eluding both labels and seeping a subtle power...
Harry (Matthew Cowles) and Tim (Timothy Meyers) are an inseparable pair of macho punks always on the make for an easy sexual score. Marie (Lind say Grouse) and Sheila (Carole Monfer-dini) are a pair of lazily provocative talk-teasers who would have movie-mag fantasies of love if they were quite up to reading movie mags. Think of the Snopeses as swinging singles and you will get a fairly exact impression of the mentalities involved...
...more than a group; it's our heritage. They preserve for us, alive and well, the music that nurtured our older sisters and brothers through adolescence. The flash, the underlying reservoir of violence, the macho-tenderness, the urban toughness--for better or worse, these are part of what we are. The miracle is that Sha Na Na transforms its music into a part of the present; any Sunday school choir would blush to hear the meticulous harmonizing they contribute to classics of the fifties and early sixties. Teen angels and leaders of the pack, Sha Na Na plays the best...