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...Hollywood, John is grooving an album to be released this week, called Mind Games, which includes such Lennon novelties as the three-second Nutopian International Album; Bring on the Lucie; and Aisumasen (I'm Sorry). Back in Manhattan, Yoko opened a gig in an Upper East Side pub, delivering a program of her own non-songs, which she delivered off-key. As a feminist, didn't she feel exploited appearing in shiny black knee boots and hot pants? Replied Yoko: "Feminism can be too militant and, anyway, jeans can be sexier than hot pants...
...identity, no past as a nation. We could not afford to relax or make mistakes." Even mild criticism of the regime still gets people into trouble, and sometimes into jail. A Leipziger who drank too much schnapps and insulted an official of the Interior Ministry in a pub, for example, was recently sent away for four years. Every factory has its party spies, and party watchdogs are among the delegates to all conferences, at home as well as abroad...
...Woody Allen, 37, the bespectacled funnyman who has schlemieled his way through a series of hit movies including Play It Again, Sam, is in dead earnest about playing Dixieland jazz. Allen has just begun his second year as a regular Monday-night combo clarinetist at Michael's Pub, a Manhattan swingles' waterhole. It happens that Woody's next movie Sleeper is about a clarinet player, but Director Woody decided not to give himself the part...
Japanese-style corporate paternalism is strong. Y.K.K. provides cut-rate bus service for employees, and Minami is forever throwing morale-boosting, all-hands-welcome parties at the Esso Motel in Runcorn. After work on Fridays, the Japanese make a point of dropping into Tanner's Pub near the plant to socialize, and the British employees like to ask one another "What doing?"-in good-humored imitation of their bosses' awkward English...
copywright: 1973 Caledonia Soul Music/Warner-Tamerlane Pub. Corp...