Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less than a year ago, enraged aldermen barged into the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and snatched from a wall a portrait of the late Mayor Harold Washington in lacy lingerie. Last week the institute was defending another inflammatory exhibit, a work by Scott Tyler, self-proclaimed "supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party U.S.A.," titled What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? Its key component: an American flag stretched out on the floor. The institute claimed that Old Glory was positioned so viewers would not be forced to walk on it. But Joseph Morris...
...Those caught after 11 p.m. (midnight on weekends) would be hauled to police stations; parents of repeat offenders would be fined. Police are skeptical. In murder cases, says Police Chief Maurice Turner, the "average victim is 31, and the average perpetrator is over the age of 18." If Mayor Marion Barry signs the bill, the local A.C.L.U. has vowed to go to court against...
...Patrick's Day is approaching fast, and Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Velucci has his theory about the story behind the holiday. "He chased the snakes out of Ireland, but he ought to send them up to Harvard University...
Although every XTC album contains its fair share of love songs, the group seems to have gotten a little sappier and a little more conventional on Oranges and Lemons. "The Mayor of Simpleton'"s lyric silliness ("I can't have been there when brains were handed 'round or get past the cover of your books profound") is somewhat offset by Partridge's fast-paced vocals, but with its bouncy rhythms and annoying chimes, it's still more of a junior high dance song than the XTC we know and love. Ironically, although "Mayor" proclaims, "Well I don't know...
Still, despite some lyrical weaknesses and tendencies toward the conventional, Oranges and Lemons is a stronger return for XTC that one might have hoped. With a majority of its songs hard-hitting and energetic, it should become a favorite of XTC fans. One can only pray that "The Mayor of Simpleton" won't be the only song to make the band famous in the next few years...