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...scenarios of fear fulfillment. But in his 1954 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney had an even spookier idea: that sleep is when the sentry of common sense nods off and allows our enemies, not ourselves, to invade and conquer. Pod seeds fall from outer space and rob sleeping humans of their emotions, their very selves. It was Us vs. Them, cold-war style -- and in this cunning parable of persecution, Them could be communism or McCarthyism. It could be any ism bent on robbing the U.S. (Us) of its ragged individualism...
...their vivacity with the stark barrenness of the Depression and Dust Bowl 1930's. The initial fire that sweeps up Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) is cooled when they run into early troubles at the start of their escapades. The first bank they try to rob together has gone bankrupt. They stop at a local person's farmstead and finding that the bank has foreclosed upon it, they use the sign for target practice...
Moreover. Eggs were already kinda sorta well-known for their oddball instrumentation--live, and on their previous records, Rob Christiansen some-times plays bass, and sometimes instead plays trombone. But that's nothing compared to the "Day in the Life" style piling up of styles and timbres on this album: a smoothly anachronistic analog synth (could it be a Mellotron?) pops up in several songs, and so effectively each time that by the end of the 66-minute Exploder opus you'll probably have moved from wondering how anyone could use a Mellotron sound on a rock record...
...Rob Yalen's letter ("Time to Review Radcliffe," Jan. 21, 1994) is on the mark. It has long seemed odd that Harvard, the Crimson, and Perspective, all vehemently opposed to gender-discrimination as a matter of principle, easily accept it in the case of Radcliffe College. Radcliffe is as adamantly single sex as are, for instance, the final clubs. The pamphlet, Facts About Radcliffe College, 1993-1994, boasts of the advantages offered exclusively to females: "Women are dual citizens of Radcliffe and Harvard...Today, women students have access to all of the resources of Harvard College. They also have access...
...deterrent approach. The District of Columbia has enacted a handgun ban -- but some residents think that may bring new dangers. "I live close to D.C.," says Rafael Escalera, 24, as he buys more bullets for his 9-mm Taurus, "and I've heard people say they would rather rob someone in D.C. than in Maryland because they don't have weapons...