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...York Rocker (166 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010) The Rocker was giving the Ramones, Talking Heads and Blondie major coverage well before the mainstream press caught on and covers the English, West Coast and Midwestern scenes as well. Lots of typically arty, New-York-is-the-center-of-the-universe attitudes, but it's well worth...
...Carter a higher tally in 1976 than a Democrat usually gets. Like other conservatives, they are now leaning to Reagan. In Illinois this year, with no Daley at the helm in Cook County, anything can happen. Says Illinois State Representative Donald Totten, who heads the Reagan campaign in four Midwestern states: "There's a lot of switching around going on out there...
Reagan clearly believes that the rise of the evangelical right will improve his chances of cracking Carter's hold on the South and winning some key Midwestern states. To help court votes, Reagan has recruited Robert Billings, one of the organizers of Moral Majority, to be a campaign aide and envoy to Christian churchmen. Billings believes that the right-wing evangelical vote could be decisive in six states: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho and South Dakota. Says Billings: "We won't win them all, but we won't lose them all either...
...great long-distance runners of fantasy and science fiction. But he is also a sprinter; his poignant and ironic short stories have been anthologized for more than 30 years. Bradbury's latest book is a highly personal selection of those works: Martian adventures, nostalgic reminiscences about small-town Midwestern life in the '20s and '30s, and several evocative anecdotes about Ireland. But its best pieces remain the tales that made the author's reputation: chillingly understated stories about a familiar world where it is always a few minutes before midnight on Halloween, and where the unspeakable...
...myths continue to animate his fiction. Bradbury's work may vary with his mood, ranging from bleak to bright. But his stories rarely fail to reinforce a classic piece of American mythology: that a boy from a small Midwestern town can make it in America-without becoming an adult...