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...that's the way it's got to be ..." an irritated Senator Russell Long was heard to say. There he was, swaggering along in the mask of captain emeritus of the Louisiana State Society's annual Mardi Gras Ball in Washington, when he found himself a lawbreaker. Some 15 years ago, he had made a rule that anyone who took off his mask would be fined $50. But when Long approached Honored Guest Betty Ford to claim a dance, a Secret Service man barred his way, saying, "You can't dance with Mrs. Ford until...
...With Mardi Gras only a week away, Frank Fullmer should be both busy and prosperous. His 53-room Bel-Air Motel (heated swimming pool, free color TV in every room) on a major highway into New Orleans is strategically located to catch the annual stampede of carnival-bound tourists. This year, however, fully one-third of his rooms are empty. "We ought to be filling up about now," he frets. "I guess people just don't want to take a chance this year...
...Kodachrome" is Simon's fling at whimsy, and "American Tune" his cliche. His use of The Onward Brass Band on "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" is a piece of self-indulgent authenticity which is barely necessary. There is a beautifully sung lullaby, "St. Judy's Comet," not really a lullaby at all, rather a hymn to the father who rarely babysits, and actually one of those rolling hills, green fields country songs with throwaway guitar lines. "Was a Sunny Day" seems obligatory, cute and Caribbean in music and tone -- even the phrasing approaches the West Indian lilt...
...THIS TIME, you don't know whether the album's good or not. It's fine, probably better than Paul Simon. Individually every single song has something to recommend it, from "Take Me to the Mardi Gras"'s bass picked guitar lines (one of West Indian music's essences), to "Was a Sunny Day"' brisk, chopped rhythms, to the full guitar chords, electric guitar fills, and the bass riff on "Learn How to Fall." It's just that whatever crux there is to this record is found on four songs...
After hours of frolicking and rollicking, who should emerge from his disguise as the king of Dartmouth College's Mardi Gras Ball but CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite. Elaborately robed, crowned and masked, Cronkite was the guest of Dartmouth President John Kemeny, who last year presented him with an honorary degree. Unmasked, Cronkite said, "It's nice to be able to fool everyone one night of the year when there are some politicians who claim we do it every night...