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...admittedly mortal Jagger sings "time waits for no one and it won't wait for me". Unable to sustain their Pop myth, they ask (with false modesty) to be accepted just like any other rock and roll band. But no matter what, the old images of them persist, and though the brand-new Stones album compares favorably with other examples of contemporary rock music, Black and Blue is a disappointment...
...Negroes negrify themselves. Let them persist to the point of madness in what they're condemned to be, in their ebony, in their odor, in their yellow eyes, in their cannibal tastes ... Negroes, if they [whites] change towards us, let it not be out of indulgence, but terror...
...protagonist of Man Friday is still Crusoe, but he is no longer the hero. It is the intention of the film makers to ridicule Crusoe's 18th century notions of the civilizing ideals which, Scenarist Mitchell implies, persist into and continually plague the 20th. Accordingly, this Friday comes from a very hip tribe. He laughs openly at Crusoe's attempts to instill the principles of wage-earning and sporting competition and figures Christianity to be foolish but harmless. Crusoe is soon turned into a pratfall personification of Western man. When an opportunity to escape the island arrives...
...Jackson will probably speak out sharply if the waves are not completely switched off pretty soon. Meanwhile, some former employees are considering legal action. One tactic may be to sue the department for more details, under the Freedom of Information Act. Anxieties about long-range effects of microwave exposure persist. Said one angry former Moscow resident: "One of the things I'm not going to give up my life for is intercepting the conversations of Leonid Brezhnev in his limousine...
Part of the reason they persist is that the more Puritanical aspects of the Islamic religion impose harsh restrictions on social life. Many people, especially the young, cling to French ways as a means of countering or protesting these restrictions...