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WORKING SPACE stands as a valiant attempt by Stella to drag abstract painting back on the road of progress. But it's just one more intellectual breakdance in a field overrun by rhetorical jivin' and poppin'. After all, abstract painting is a mental art. Since abstraction is the mental process of selection and exaggeration, abstract art requires the intellectual equivalent of a Captain Video decoder ring to translate a picture into ordinary concepts...
Afterburner (Warner Brothers) by ZZ Top: ZZ Top has actually managed to make a fun danceable record out of the lumbering mess of the Southern metal, triple guitar/dual drum threat, hard boogie, whisky and chaw genre. The addition of synth drums and poppin' bass help carry the weight of ZZ's infantile subject matter, making it fun instead of sexist. "Velcro Fly" and "Planet of Women" are keg party anthems, inspiring the attitude: "Don't worry, I'll clean up tommorrow." Basically, Afterburner is the party platter the Rolling Stones have been trying to make for the past eight years...
...young Ramos remembers, "I never had a moment to myself." Almost every day he trained like Rocky, running eight miles each dawn through the shadowy streets, then working out for three hours in the evening at a gym. "This is only the beginning," he says. "I'm already poppin' the gray hairs. You got to be a 24-hour man in this business. I'm only 19, and damn, there are so many things I'd like to be doing." In a rare burst of youthful candor he says, "First thing I'll do when...
...goes on to discuss "welded-steel four-thousand pound artichokes" and sings a chorus about "poppin" Darvon and mothballs" and "sleepin' on paper towels and drinkin...
...saying of the adoption: "It was 99% of the preacher's problem. If you ask me, some of those Christians ought to be thrown to the lions." Billy later said that he had been "sort of misquoted. Most Plains residents dismissed Billy's charge. "He was just poppin' off," said one woman. "Why, the wife of the head of the board of deacons at the church frequently baby-sat for the child...