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Real Reforms. These possibilities will remain if more and more Frenchmen become persuaded that only the left can accomplish a program of real reforms. Giscard's ability to prove them wrong is in doubt: politically, he has lately begun to pedal back to the right. Recently he awarded his Premier the title of "coordinator and animator" of the presidential majority parties in the Assembly. Because "Bulldozer" Chirac, 43, is a committed Gaullist, his new job was a signal that Giscard now sees more need to regain the conservative voters he has scared off than to continue...
...times like these, in the early morning hours, that visions of palm trees and pedal steel guitar music start winking and swaying, sultrily enticing while outside Cambridge's wind chain-saws through the joggers and mailmen. Palm trees equal sunshine, sixpacks, surf. Pedal steel guitars equal smoky night clubs, sequins, cocaine in the back rooms. What more could you want? (For spring vacation, anyway...
...Highway One peters out in downtown Key West, Florida--they just closed down the naval air station so the town will probably be even sleepier than it ever was. After a couple of days of the palm trees and all their concomitants, you'll probably be ready for the pedal steel guitars. Well, the only places I know of to look for pedal steel music are two perhaps figmentary, (because they're only mentioned in songs) but pretty concrete (at least in the images they're evoked with in the songs) bars'n' lounges--the Shipwreck Lounge and the rather...
...ever find yourself in the audience at either of these dens, dropping peanut shells on the floor and putting a poptop back into the beercan before you slurp up the suds oozing around the rim, Jimmy Buffett may just be standing right in front of you, along with the pedal steel you've been looking for. Jimmy Buffett is a semi-permanent escapee, you see, whose major claim to fame as far as the Southern vocabulary goes is his invention and frequent usage of the phrase "commode-hugging drunk," which comes in real handy on recriminating mornings replete with description...
...contribution to the New Country has been a sophisticated rowdiness, a wallowing in the sound of words, a degree of self-parody, and a subtly vulgar description of place and time and living. Buffett's worst moments are his most sentimental, when strings overwhelm his plain acoustic and pedal steel guitars, when he talks about his grandfather and going home, and gets trapped in the old cliches. These moments are more numerous on Buffett's later albums--as he runs out of youthful exuberance, maybe--but he greases his way out of most of the beartraps with little twists...