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Water Through a Rag. Some of the marines barely had time to pitch their tents when they were sent into their first major battle. On a peninsula below Chu Lai, 5,000 marines, aided by rocket-firing Cobra helicopters, jet fighters and naval guns from Task Force 77, killed close to 700 guerrillas. But this, they soon learned, was Viet Nam. No sooner did Operation Starlight end, said an exasperated officer, than the surviving Viet Cong "seeped back in like water through a wet rag...
...Rag to Vellum...
...else but that rag-bone-and-hank-of-hair known as a High-Fashion Model. She is supposed to be showing off the new clothes for the readers of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and fashion pages of general magazines. Is she succeeding? No, scream a growing gaggle of fashion designers, who claim their clothes are being downgraded to mere props for far-out photography. Nonsense, answer annoyed photographers and editors...
...What breed of white man, save a guilt-ridden fanatic from one of our 20th century churches, would actually choose black rule? Can you seriously imagine preferring to be outnumbered 16 to 1 by blacks in swimming pools, theaters and schools, preferring to live under some monstrously multicolored rag instead of the Union Jack, preferring to point to speculative historical "records" of some primitive people as a record of antecedents instead of to England's glory and the brilliance of English-African settlements...
...Blues, Songs and Ballads has personality. It captures some of Rush's best performances: a riotous rendition of the old jazz tune "Sister Kate" acquired from Eric von Schmidt and a version of "Baby Please Don't Go" that I prefer to Mose Allison's. Excepting "Rag Mama" and "Drop Down Mama," which have inordinately good lyrics much of the remainder is pedestrian...