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...protest the "stale" sounds offered by licensed New York stations. The pirate broadcasts stopped last week, after four days, when Coast Guardsmen and FCC agents, citing an . international treaty prohibiting broadcasts aboard ships outside national territories, boarded the Sarah and arrested Chief Engineer Alan Weiner and Disk Jockey Ivan Rothstein. The two were released pending a hearing on charges of conspiring to impede the FCC. In the meantime, station WNYG-AM on Long Island is giving the rock-'n'-roll pirates some time on terra firma and allowing them a test 16-hour broadcast this week...
...There is a before and an after. The digital watch gives you precision, but leaves you wondering where you are. Analog is a return to a certain harmony that the digital world chops away. Thus analog is able to capture qualities that digital never will. Only the LP, concludes Rothstein after truly heroic experimentation, can convey, say, the piano's quality of "attack and decay...
Shown on national television by PBS, the film, says Bennett, was "unabashed socialist-realism propaganda" that should not have received public money. Bennett argued that the film presented a one-sided view of the Nicaragua story. One of the film's defenders, Wisconsin Humanities Chairman Morton Rothstein, says, "While I personally would have preferred a more 'balanced' presentation, I found it a stimulating presentation that shed light on a major public policy issue." But Bennett insists that the content and methods of Nicaragua Today "do not fall within the humanities...
...Cola's I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke-was saturating the air waves free. Some tunes are adapted from classics. Some, like Steve Karmen's I Love New York, are endlessly repeatable four-note phrases. Last year New York Times Music Writer Edward Rothstein confessed that he found it easier to remember musical childishness like American Airlines' "... doing what we do best" than any Brahms piano quartet...
...People said it couldn't be done. They said Citizens was a one year thing. A political thing. And now we are back again," Rothstein says. "We do what Exxon does, only we are non-profit--and we don't have exploration costs. But out basic philosophies are directly contradictory. We are competitors, in an absolute sense, not a real sense. We are an idea. And if we are legitimized other people may decide...