Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rich Little-as-Devo--there, in a nutshell, you have the B-52s. These three men and two women--none musicians in any sense of the word--have captured the pose of the New Wave, the mannerisms without the guts. Robot repetition of the rhythm, one finger electronic keyboards, mechanistic vocals--this album is a parody of Devo, which was a parody to begin with. It might sound like the New Wave to the "Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man," but this is polyester music, boring, irritating...
...last week, she stepped out of her league. For $50,000, Meyers signed with the Indiana Pacers to become the first woman ever given a contract in men's bigtime professional sports.* This week she joins the Pacers' rookie camp to start the daunting struggle of winning a place in the high-pressure and punishing world of the pros. Among her competition for the eleven-person regular season roster is Indi ana's No. 1 draft choice, Dudley Bradley of North Carolina. A measure of the task facing Meyers...
...inspiration of Peter Elbling, 35, a director and actor. Last winter he took the idea to Christopher Cerf, 38, and Tony Hendra, 38, a pair of National Lampoon alumni who helped edit Not the New York Times, and Art Director Michael Gross, 33, another Lampoon veteran. The four men, aided by half the wits in Manhattan, brainstormed for months and recruited more than three dozen writers from such places as the Lampoon, the New York Times, Harper's, TIME, New York magazine and The New Yorker. George Plimpton wrote an unsigned parody of Truman Capote's long-unfinished...
...elite Scots Guards neared the Rhine at the close of World War II, a dashing Sandhurst-trained tank commander risked his life to rescue one of his men under fire. The exploit won him the Military Cross. Last Friday, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's office announced that the onetime officer, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, 57, will be assuming a rather different command. In January he will replace F. Donald Coggan, who is retiring at age 70 as Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of the Church of England and titular head of the world's 65 million Anglicans, including America...
...fault, like the virtue, is the author's. He writes powerful interludes, only to vandalize them by reducing his characters to prototypes. By midnovel, Fabian is shown to be, in his creator's phrase, "a portable man," at home everywhere and nowhere. Like other Kosinski men, he is unable to love without domination or lose without humiliation. His fears are for himself, not for the human condition; his vaunted independence is merely a lack of compassion. His wanderings are like those of the brain-damaged who range farther away from an object when they try to approach...