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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personality, no musicianship. Yes, it is "cute" and "weird." The women wear "funny" wigs and the men wear white Oxfords and skinny lapels and one has a skinny mustache that is so "bizarre." Yes, it features some of the worst leadfooted drumming ever recorded. Yes, the guitarist couldn't play a ukelele. Yes, they have no bass player...
...PASSION PLAY by Jerzy Kosinski; St. Martin's Press; 271 pages...
...Passion Play, Kosinski's seventh novel, the man's name is Fabian. But in essence he is the bloodless Levanter of Blind Date (1977), the vengeful wanderer Tarden of Cockpit (1975) and the haunted boy in Kosinski's first and best fiction, The Painted Bird. Fabian differs from his predecessors chiefly in occupation: he is a competitive horseman. The aging jockey plays a strange sort of polo - a one-on-one contest in which animal and rider become a single figure jousting on a timeless range. Like many equestrians, Kosinski's rider is graceful on horseback...
...makes a few paragraphs indistinguishable from Harold Robbins at the gallop: "When she arrived, the flare of her seductive allure would be in full glow, the meld of her sexuality fired by the challenge of another woman." Fortunately, Kosinski's kinks are a minor portion of Passion Play. The reader who can get past horse-and-lady scenes that bear no relation to International Velvet will be rewarded with passages of great force...
While the team may still lack depth and experience, Restic said, "The players will impress you with their enthusiasm and desire to play and if they hustle, regardless of the outcome, I'll be happy...