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...Parallel Lines, Blondie's latest, exhibits a new security and ease the group has developed in the last six months. Every song on it shows that Harry and her musicians aren't confused anymore. They drop any connection they had with the stream of deranged, safety-pin punk; and the band no longer seems self-conscious about borrowing from the '50s. One song on the album, "11:59," is perfect: a wonderful mix of lyrics that sound like they have meaning and a hard-driving pop tune that doesn't wear out after three hearings...
...MOST UNUSUAL cut on Parallel Lines is Blondie's experimental fling into the progressive electronic music of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, an expansive song called "Fade Away and Radiate." After an eerie flourish on the synthesizer, Harry coos some surrealistic lyrics; with no instruments backing her--only the thud of a bass drum--she toys with the tune, which seems to be in no key at all. Within a minute, though, the band is behind her; and Fripp (formerly of King Crimson) nearly steals the song with a wild, electronically treated guest guitar solo...
Even a cute blonde like Debby Harry can't get away with that. Aside from a few embarrassing verses like these, Parallel Lines is excellent--each of its 12 songs is backboned but not offensive, catchy but not insipid...
Allison's querie is not far off the mark. Dunlop speaks of the two schools as complimentary. People in the public sector can benefit from knowledge of the private sector and vice-versa, he says. He is helping raise funds for two parallel professorships, one on each side of the river, to be occupied by professors with a high degree of competence in business-government relations...
...down in order not to hold up the treaty. Nonetheless, the Egyptian team will try to get as much linkage as possible between its Sinai deal and the future status of these occupied territories. The Egyptians expect the Israelis to make some unilateral gestures on the West Bank to parallel the Sinai talks. For one thing, they want the Israelis to dismantle their military government at about the time that an Israeli-Egyptian peace pact is signed. Another gesture could be the release of a sizable number of Palestinian political prisoners...