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...trouble are the ones that used to be the sources of its renewal: radio and records. What sells is what the radio plays, but the radio plays only what sells and, often, what sells out. Styx, Foreigner, AC/DC, Journey, REO are variously typical of what Columbia Records Executive Peter Philbin calls a "Madison Avenue approach to rock 'n' roll," a cunningly anonymous cruise down the mainstream. Telling any of these groups apart is like passing the Pepsi challenge: Even if you see any difference between them, what possible difference does it make...
...photographed and filmed at the beginning of this century. With narration by Donald Sutherland and Patrick Watson. Showing with it is Thomas Edison's The Great Train Robbery (1913). The Phantom of the Opera. This must be the 1925 Rupert Julian American version with Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin (the best version), because Harkness Commons is featuring a live piano player. Too bad there can't be an organ there for the Phantom pumping away at Toccata and Fugue in the sewers under the Opera House...
...East River, the quarterback of the city's Stars tosses passes into darkness as his team plays under lights first used 35 years ago at Ebbets Field, where apartment houses now stand. ("This is the only stadium, and the only league," says Star Defensive End Gerry Philbin, "where they decide on the coin flip whether they'll take the well-lit side or the dull side.") Despite such antique facilities and some equally antique players, the twelve teams of the maverick World Football League played the sixth game of their 20-game season last week. They are clearly...
Second, the returns just posted came from precincts in Newton and Brookline -- Drinan's two major strongholds. In 1970, when Drinan, a 51-year-old Roman Catholic priest, upset 28-year-incumbent Philip Philbin, a conservative Democrat, and Republican John McGlennon, one out of every five Newton voters was listed as a Drinan volunteer. Brookline, Linsky's home town, is composed predominantly of wealthy liberals who were attracted by Drinan's strong anti-Vietnam, pro-Israel stands. In the October 30 poll published by the Globe, Drinan led Linsky in Brookline by more than ten points. The returns from these...
...taking votes from everybody. The conservative Democratic Philbin supporters in the western end of the district are still bitter about the 1970 campaign and still can't stand Drinan. They might not be able to bring themselves to vote for a Republican, but they might support me instead...