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...guitar playing in which something like a piece of broken glass is used to fret the strings to produce a strong, lowdown sound. A few decades ago it was the sound of a whole genus of American music that might be called backroads blues. Today its best exponent is Ry Cooder, a guitarist and singer of wry wit and concentrated energy who has extended the troubadour tradition of Woody Guthrie and fashioned a distinctive personality for himself from the shards of the American musical past...
...When Ry (short for Ryland) Cooder's fourth and latest album, Paradise and Lunch, popped up at the shallow end of the charts this summer, the reaction at Warner Bros. Records was gratification tinged with a trace of awe. Cooder has no gruesomely elaborate stagecraft or lifestyle, and his work is not the sort that goes down easily with Carly Simon fans or Elton John aficionados. His music is elegantly eclectic, running from Leadbelly and Sleepy John Estes blues numbers through main-line ballads of the 1940s to reggae and rock 'n' roll. "Ry's pure...
Throughout his election campaign last spring, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing repeatedly said that he hoped to bring a more relaxed style to the French presidency. During an hour-long interview at the Elysée Palace last week with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers and Correspondent George Taber, Giscard seemed to be fulfilling his campaign promise. He leaned back comfortably on a silk-covered sofa in his elegant Louis XVI-style office and spoke freely on matters of both style and substance. Excerpts...
Rebellious Sailors. The liner's fate had been sealed last July, when French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced that the government could no longer afford to subsidize the ship. A fourfold increase in oil prices had pushed the liner's estimated deficit to an intolerable rate of $21 million this year. Although the ship was to have been pulled out of service on Oct. 25, the end was hastened when the crew went on strike two weeks ago as the liner approached Le Havre on its regular crossing from New York. Rebellious sailors forced...
...school supplies, children's clothing, ham, yogurt, sausage and other common goods. No one expects the widely publicized program to have anything but a cosmetic effect on France's severe economic difficulties. A more fundamental attack on inflation was launched several months ago when President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing restricted credit by imposing high interest rates. Recognizing the hardship the measure inflicted on most Frenchmen, Giscard has urged his countrymen: "Do not give in to discouragement." Nonetheless, forecasts indicate that this winter widespread strikes and business failures could sweep France...