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...composer to that of an actress in Shakespeare's day - hopeless. Among the popular theories offered to explain the mysterious absence of eminent women composers was the biological: men compose symphonies, women compose babies. Sociologists point out that little girls are mostly encouraged to confine their talents to parlor piano playing. Though women have always been accepted as soloists, only in recent years have many conservatories trained women as composers. "Think of the thousands and thousands of men who have studied composing," says Pianist-Conductor Bo ris Goldovsky, "to produce only about three dozen masters. Statistically...
...penniless only a few years ago She also encountered old Springsteen sidekicks, whose names have been woven into his lyrics. One 4½hour interview with Southside Johnny began cautiously but ended with a walk down Memory Lane to take a look at Madame Marie's, a fortunetelling parlor that also figures in Springsteen's music. "The whole scene was eerie," Vallely says, "like the stage set for an episode of Twilight Zone. I loved it." The 'final story, edited by Martha Duffy, was written by Associate Editor Jay Cocks, who regularly reviews new movies but coveted...
...time is Mardi Gras. The place is an undertaker's parlor that looks rather like a medieval cloister. The hero is an undertaker named Herman Starr (Pat Hingle) who jests at death as if he never felt the wound. Actually, he feels it very deeply since his 15-year-old daughter Monica (Deborah Offner) may die at any moment. She was born a blue baby with "a hole in her heart...
...think that one thing that's very interesting about young people is that as much as we've been exposed to sex, we've been exposed to a certain kind of sex, so-called liberated, gaudy, titillating massage-parlor sex. These are real people talking about real sex, and I think that's what will get to people like you and me. And I tried to remember after this book, had I ever imagined, or really thought, about my parents in bed together, and I'm you know, quote-unquote liberated, I'm a product of all the things that...
Even TM officials admit that 20% to 25% of the people who try TM give it up after a while. Others claim the apostasy rate is still higher. One of those who quit is Victor Zukowski, owner of a Sharon, Mass., beauty parlor. "Look, I really tried," he says. "I paid my $125, attended all the sessions, and submitted to a ridiculous initiation ceremony. I meditated for six months, and do you know what happened? I fell asleep ev ery time. I just don't think it's right to charge people $125 for nothing...