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Quadrophenia is much more luced. Just as it addresses itself to the rock in "rock opera," it draws on a readily recognizable context: the Mod-Rocker wars of the middle sixties. From which wars sprung The Who, among many. While Tommy's hollow symbolism may have destroyed its viability, Quadrophenia's Jimmy is accessible thematically and physically, as far as two dimensions will carry him. The picture book insert not only fleshes out the scenario, but gives the listener an almost tangible hero. At the same time there is that hint of Townshend mysticism. The idea of fusing the band...
...turned out last fall to drink and mingle under wooden beams, amid ankle-deep carpets and expensive French prints. Soft rock music wafted round a small jungle of indoor plants as guests explored color-coordinated treatment rooms and dental equipment discreetly hidden away in wooden cabinets. The idea, explained mod-garbed Dentists Gerard Frankel and Richard Winograde, was to create a soothing atmosphere for fearful patients...
...corporation-lawyer look-three-piece Yale-gray suits, white shirts and club ties-got a credibility rating of 81%; this year the figure plummeted to 57%. Meanwhile, the mod suit with wide lapels and nipped waist worn over a pastel-patterned shirt zoomed upward in credibility from 28% to 63%. Interestingly, those polled were traditionally conservative blue-collar workers earning less than $15,000 a year...
...Ulbricht's obvious successor in 1971, when the Russians needed someone more pliable to further the policy of détente. In the two years since he took power, he has loosened a few of Ulbricht's moralistic dictums-rules against long hair and mod clothes, for instance-but in every important way he has remained as rigid as his master...
Hunt is not convinced that the discovery of the break-in team at the Democratic National Committee headquarters was an accident; he thinks he smells a trap. "There were just too many fishy things that occurred. What was the [plainclothes] mod squad doing out on the street some two-three hours after they were supposed to be off duty...