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STEVE FORBERT'S ALBUM Jack Rabbit Slim is Bruce Springsteen street music thrown into a Barry Manilow package of syrrupy cliches. Forbert has the formula, the solo instrumentals, the rough voice and the street subjects, but these components lack Springsteen's raw spontaneity and power. Where Springsteen bursts with energy and originality Forbert wallows in the listless and trite...
...Jack Rabbit Slim Forbert focuses his energies on a self-conscious attempt to expand on the style of his first album. This straining results in songs that are unispired, muscially repetitive and lyrically fragmented...
...waiting for, but this certainty is a tribute to Le Guin's narrative savvy. Because she moves briskly without ever seeming to hurry, she makes Hugh's transformation from supermarket clerk to Arthurian knight-errant whisk by as inevitably as a theorem, as acceptably as a rabbit coming out of a hat. The author brandishes her magic instead of concealing it; when Hugh accepts his mission on behalf of the people of Mountain Town, he is given a standard-issue sword and sent out to slay a woefully worn-out dragon...
Jacques Villon's "Seated Woman" is an equally disturbing comment on the effects of modernity on human beings. A tiny figure huddles in the background while its huge rabbit-like feet lunge into the foreground. The image is not comical; the clenched fists, open mouth and oversized staring eyes cry out like Edvard Munch's tortured souls...
...point buyers of General Motors' new X cars had to wait four to six months for delivery, and Chrysler Corp.'s popular Dodge Omnis and Plymouth Horizons were being sold before they reached the showrooms. The order backlog for Volkswagen's Pennsylvania-built diesel Rabbit remains long. But nowhere is the rush to gas sippers more evident than among the imports. While the overall sales of the U.S. auto firms have plunged, foreign makes are booming-so much so that as a group they have moved ahead of Ford and taken over the No. 2 spot...