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Style is all in this world. The revival meetings in the preacher's church and the rock and reggae that float over Kingston like a frowning cloud, are both variations on the same theme. To prosper is to create reality--to find your medium and sell it. In Jamaica, the sudden graft of Western society on to a pre-industrial culture has produced a society where the only alternative to living a mythical electronic life is the clutching poverty of the shacks of West Kingston...
Ivan marks time, working for "Preacher," as the religious boss is called by employees. He cuts a record for the island's one and only producer, and is forced to accept $20 for the rights. The Jamaican record industry is dominated by two or three large producers, who force poor performers lacking capital to accept whatever the producers will pay--usually around $20 a tune. The producers control what the radio stations play, and at the same time try to make sure that no one artist becomes wealthy or well known enough to challenge their position. When Ivan attempts...
Time Magazine, the preacher to the Nation, is fond of weighing the returns from Harvard heavily when it sifts through the mounds of evidence that pour through its good offices. In its relentless search for national patterns and trends, the Magazine seizes upon even the most insignificant rumors floating out of Cambridge as the harbingers of nationwide change...
...corruption and immorality, finds that he can no longer govern. In accordance with the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, he declares himself "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office," and announces his intention of going abroad. Spiro Agnew thus becomes Acting President. Long known as a preacher of puritanism. Agnew starts a major campaign against pornography and prostitution, but eventually is himself drawn into criminal conduct. Nixon meanwhile, instead of skipping the country, takes a leaf from G. Gordon Liddy, dons a disguise, and travels around hither and yon, eavesdropping and generally keeping the citizenry under secret...
Alice Cooper is Vincent Furnier actually a fairly square preacher's son who delights in home cooking and wearing Levi's, but onstage as Alice he is the king, queen, unicorn and Godzilla of schlock rock. His show is a grotesquerie of sick sex, gory violence and ear-splitting cacophony. Last week at the San Diego Sports Arena and the week before at the Los Angeles Forum the scene was the same. The lights dimmed and the crowd (size: 12,000 to 22,000; age: 15 to 25) was allowed to roar for a full five minutes before...