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DIED. Raymond Carlson, 76, editor of Arizona Highways magazine from 1938 to 1971, who transformed a house organ for road contractors into a beautifully produced showcase that attracted more than 400,000 subscribers from all 50 states and 110 foreign countries; in Scottsdale, Ariz...
...been a hat-check clerk at an ice rink." She is onstage, a post-punk dream clad in black satin, electric-pink socks the only splash of color. "Which, in fact, he turned out to be." Her hair is short, spiky, capping a high-cheekboned, all-American visage. An organ chord swells in the background. "And I said, 'Oh boy. Right again. Let x equal x.' " Behind her, a small rock band plays softly. "It's a sky-blue sky," she says. "Satellites are out tonight. Let x equal...
...Life Is Good, Newman slings an arm over the shoulder of his "very good friend . . . Mr. Bruce Springsteen." In Take Me Back, a lively rave-up propelled by a roadhouse-style Farfisa organ, he chronicles how a life of early promise guttered and ended "by this dirty old airport/ In this greasy little shack." Randy Newman may live far from that kind of address-in Santa Monica, Calif., in fact, with a wife and three sons-but his imagination still dwells in the long shadows. Says his brother Alan: "Randy looks at the world from the underside...
...total population of more than 1 million) complained, and South Africa vetoed the legislation. As Mudge retold it, that was only the latest in a long series of occasions on which South Africa had ignored, modified or nullified the actions of the assembly's executive organ, the Ministers' Council. Said he: "We will never again take part in any form of government in the territory that is being controlled by Pretoria. What we now want is a meaningful government, not one which has been patched together [by South Africa]. Our priority is elections that will get us international...
...studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity: the human will as will, and not just as a surge of hormones: the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding...