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Heeding this commandment, I recently visited one of Boston's several tea rooms (all elbowing for preeminence, not unlike the seven Ray's Pizza in NYC). A year and a half ago, just before taking time off, I had pilgrimaged to this same tea room at the urging of a friend. On that visit, John, the tea leaf reader, greeted me with the warning, "I feel that you might leave this region. That would be a mistake, a big one. I see money problems in the next couple of months if you leave. It will be very hard. I feel...
Garland Jeffreys has a new album that avoids both these routes, while creating a style that puts the rest of American pop music to shame. Jeffreys is an NYC street poet-songwriter who has to his credit three highly praised albums, Ghost Writer, One-Eyed Jack (now a cut-out), and American Boy & Girl, all commercial no-sells. His sound is reminiscent of Lou Reed, but with an essential divider: Where Reed's influences lie in jazz and his vocals tend to be experimental (sometimes to the point of irritating), Jeffreys thrives on another form of Black music--reggae...
...ROLLER COASTER of a movie barrels toward hell: the lead singer dies, and Tony deserts his kid ("Little Pete") on a NYC street. Bakshi decides to bring the story up to the present while linking it with the past, so Pete struts the street to Pat Benatar's recent "Hell is for Children" (a dismal choice for an anthem!) and stops to look in a doorway where an orthodox rabbi is chanting and moves on. Young punks denying their past! Oy vey! The screen explodes into surreal dance on the edges of razor blades, mouth-piercing safety pins...
...NOTEBOOK: While Syracuse heads for NYC and St. John's University to see whether they're number two in the East or number one, the Crimson will finish their upstate New York road trip with tomorrow night's contest against Cornell. Both the Crimson and the Big Red have 1-5 Ivy records, but if Elaine Holpuch recovers, Harvard stands a good chance of their second...
...money from Washington's printing presses are right now available. This giant project triggers rebuilding urban America. Vastly increases employment as well as revenues for government and private industry. The MX missile for 1980-90 at 50 to 100 billion dollars destroys Nevada-Utah and threatens human survival. Rebuilding NYC subway blesses humankind. Henry Ratliff...