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Witness the golf team. They showed up at Braeburn Country Club in Newton yesterday, ready to take on area colleges in the Greater Boston Championships. They waited in the rain for anyone wearing an Eagle, an Engineer or a Jumbo uniform to appear But all they met was the club professional, who advised them that the match had been postponed...
...Fourth of July concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C.? The Beach Boys, announced Watt, attracted "the wrong element" at their last Fourth concert in 1981. The environmental impresario's alternative choice to show "the glories of America in a patriotic and inspirational way": Vegas Lounge Lizard Wayne Newton, who is in his element crooning before gamblers clutching highballs and waitresses. Such undesirable Beach Boys fans as George Bush, Michael Deaver and Nancy Reagan (a closet B.B. groupie) thought Watt was out of tune and touch. The Great Conductor himself, Ronald Reagan, called Watt into the Oval Office...
...annual Fourth of July concert have been attracting "the wrong element. James G. Watt announced that this year's event would be different. It would "appeal to families and a broad range of Americans," in a spokesman's words, and it would feature the heart swelling music of Wayne Newton and various military bands...
...Congress, the nation's legislators displayed a newfound zeal for California's best known rock group. "The Beach Boys transcend generations," complained Rep. Thomas J. Downey (D.N.Y.), the chairman of the House arts caucus. "Wayne Newton doesn't transcend anything." "Help me Ronald, don't let him run wild," urged Re;. George Miller (D-Calif.). And Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas) suggested that Secretary Watt get going right away on a "surfin safari...
...thinking that Watt's biggest blunder was not that he purged the Beach Boys, devout though their following appears to be in the Reagan White House. The more significant faux pas, we feel, was to place them with the most unbearably fatuous entertainer this nation is currently enduring. Wayne Newton. Surely the public outcry would have been diminished if Watt had not selected, out of all the singers in the United States of America, a man whose performances are the musical equivalent of toxic waste...