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Linda Ronstadt: Lush Life (Asylum). Also starring Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. This is a sequel to last year's surprising smash, What's New, in which Ronstadt, her arranger-conductor and his orchestra proved that anything old could be renewed again, probably-given this kind of talent-in perpetuity. Lush Life is rather more playful and relaxed than its predecessor, as if the singer felt vindicated by her decision to refurbish some of pop's sturdiest standards. There is a kittenish sexuality singeing the edges of some of the twelve songs here; Mean to Me sounds...
...year-old retired professor said that he was planning to circulate a letter to be signed by a large group of fellow Nobel laureates asking the South African government to free Black civil rights leader Nelson Mandella, who has been in jail in South Africa for 22 years...
...When it gets cold we'll get a sack of oysters, put some sweet potatoes on the potbelly stove, and put a nice tape on - Willie Nelson, something like that -and then we chop and carve. That's where it's at. It's being happy." Brunet advised not to strive for winning ribbons; rather, he said, strive to please yourself - something he apparently has accomplished. "I say, when I carve a pintail drake, you can set music to it. Everything swings...
...group of computer experts headed by Stewart Brand, editor in chief of the Whole Earth Software Catalog. Brand's idea was to bring together, for the first time, people from several generations of hackers, and his guests included some of the brightest stars in computing: Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib, a widely read handbook from the mid-1970s; Stephen Wozniak, who built the original Apple computer; Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1; Richard Greenblatt, who developed the LISP machines used in artificial-intelligence research; and Burrell Smith, a one time Apple repairman who went on to build...
Mencken drew his strength from Baltimore, the way Royko draws his from Chicago, the way Antacus drew his strength from his mother. Earth Royko's Chicago, the city of Nelson Algren (eulogized by his friend in this collection) is more bustling, alive and bursting with strength than Baltimore. Perhaps that's why Royko's essays seem more alive and compelling than Mencken...