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Like other suburbanites, most citizens of Cleveland's Shaker Heights just love dogs-their own, that is. Other people's merely make messes. Those who own no dogs find their scat a common danger to the unwary footstep and an offense to the wandering eye. After receiving 82 complaints in one month, Shaker Heights' city council finally approved an ordinance which declares that "no person being the owner or in charge or control of any dog shall allow or permit such dog to commit a nuisance" on any public or private property without the property owner...
...peace, love, children and the poor. Musically it is a far cry from the gospel or blues styles a black singer-composer might normally apply to such subjects. Instead Gaye weaves a vast, melodically deft symphonic pop suite in which Latin beats, soft soul and white pop, and occasionally scat and Hollywood schmalz, yield effortlessly to each other. The overall style of the album is so lush and becalming that the words-which in themselves are often merely simplistic-come at the listener like dots from a Seurat landscape. They are innocent individually, but meaningful en masse. Heard over...
...Observatory in Cambridge, disagreed with the group's desire to isolate South Africa from the rest of the scientific world. "I agreed completely with their motivations but the methodology of creating an intellectual blockade in education, arts, or the sciences I consider an unsound method of bringing about that scat of change," Whipple said...
...Cooking does best on Only Time Will Tell Me, a gospel song written by Toni and sung by Terry, and Castles, which ends with the two girls twining their voices in a long, wild scramble of Afro scat singing...
...Noah's ark: Jonah. Two By Two is a jinxed musical arch, vulgar, lumbering, stale. It may conceivably make scores of theater- party ticket purchasers curse their favorite charities for months to come. There is, of course, Danny Kaye as Noah, and he does everything short of scat singing a git-begat-gittle number...