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...music factory with a rich bag of assorted talents. He plays piano with the urbane primitivism of a Glenn Gould thumping out variations on rock 'n' roll's Jerry Lee Lewis. His singing style ranges from a Mick Jagger snarl to a delicate, insinuating plaint that recalls Jose Feliciano. As a composer, John has already turned out more than a dozen of the year's best songs-in styles that include country rock, country blues, just plain country, gospel, soft rock and classical rock...
...getup and suspended the boys. Arguing that the hair was necessary to their musical careers and in any case was protected by the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee, Jackson and Barnes went to court. But neither trial nor appeals judges were turned on by the musicians' plaint. Last week the Supreme Court also turned a deaf ear; so the school's long-hair ban stands. Four months ago, however, the court refused to review a Wisconsin decision that struck down a high school long-hair ban (TIME, June 15). The conclusion seems to be that...
...lying nude on the doctor's examination couch (behind a curtain, that is-this play caters only to the playgoer's imagination). In comes the doctor's wife (Jan Farrand), a blonde minibombshell charitably described by her husband as a nymphomaniac. When she makes her usual plaint about Dr. Prentice's lack of expertise as a lover, the doctor replies a trifle uncharitably: "You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin...
Warren Blake, a black police community relations officer in Harlem, asks: "You know what the people up here are saying? Now that white people's kids are involved, the politicians are worried." There is undoubtedly truth in that plaint, though everyone dealing with teen-age addiction vehemently agrees that governmental efforts in law enforcement, education, treatment and rehabilitation are so far barely more than a gesture; most U.S. cities have simply no facilities whatever for handling teen-age addicts, and even New York officially has no public funds specifically for treating addicts under...
...appearance was the elaborate appeal he developed to entice students into "reform" efforts. For the theory that has given Nader the most troubling attack in the last year has not been the General Motors charge that he is out to destroy capitalist America. Rather, it has been the needling plaint of college students that Nader is too concerned with patching up the minor flaws of corporate, capitalist, bureaucratic America. Why not get out there and change the whole system...