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...city of Detroit, which rides the auto industry's undulations as if on a roller coaster, has yet to feel the worst of the downturn in car sales. Though auto layoffs have driven joblessness to 11.8% in the city, auto workers who have at least one year's seniority will qualify for supplemental unemployment benefits, or SUB, tacked on to unemployment compensation; the total can go as high as 95% of take-home pay for a 40-hour work week. But SUB funds, supplied by companies as part of the union contract, are not infinite and could expire...
...garrulous alcoholic despondency. She swigs continuously from a bottle, and her only other visible activity is carrying a plunger to a stopped-up toilet. That facility is overemployed, since Mert's senile mother-in-law, also a tippler, is incontinent. The old lady has been fitted out with roller skates so that she can make her all-too-necessary trips at top speed...
...rock and roller like me, you will probably get off on the dancing half of the record and forget about the rest. In fact you'd be better off skipping the whole thing and spending your money instead on the new J. Geils Band album or Rejuvenation by the Meters, both of which rock mercilessly and put It's Only Rock 'n Roll to shame. If, on the other hand, you relate to the current version of the youth culture, if your idea of a rocking good time is digging on Seymour Martin Lipset's greatest hits, if you think...
...sound track of 1970's Performance, a movie of scattershot brilliance about a gangster and a rock star, further keyed up interest in Cooder's own album debut. "I think the people at the record company expected some kind of wild-assed rock-'n'-roller," Cooder recalls of that first solo album. "I gave 'em something a little different...
Also back - quite literally - on an old stomping ground last week was Chicago Correspondent Richard Woodbury, who reported to the Nation section on Round-the-World Walker David Kunst. Following on the heels of an earlier crack at peripatetic journalism - a glide-along with Cross-Country Roller Skater Clint Shaw last June -Woodbury logged ten huffing-and-puffing miles of legwork with the quick Kunst against a stiff head wind on a northern Iowa road...