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Side one opens with a sickening buzz that sends you to your knees praying for the health of your stereo, but it's only the beginning of an uncomfortable telephone conversation with someone's senile grandmother. This introduces "The Good News," which typifies the side. Throughout the side, melodies and lyrics are good but not superlative (a striking exception being one insightful line from the Orwellian "Big Brother:" "go with him and he'll show you how to break the chains of freedom"). The harmony is perfectly executed but in arrangements that are "merely" well above average; the guitar solos...
...years ago, the system for distributing freshmen in the House system was changed to break down the enclaves of provincialism that House Masters had set up. With the change came a slow distraction of stereo-types: Eliot House as the prepple House: Winthrop, the Jock House: Quincy the center of student government; Dunster and Adams, the radical Houses...
Bacharach and Guitars. Haldeman's dedication to work carries over into his private life. Like Nixon, he is a stereo music fan, and prefers to work at home for an hour or two each evening with Burt Bacharach or guitar music in the background. Photography is his passion. He began shooting movies of the President and big state events last year with a camera he bought in a Bonn PX, and has since virtually filmed Nixon's every step. What socializing Haldeman does tends to be with like-minded members of the Administration. His closest friend in Washington...
Promoters are pushing in other ways. Stereo recordings memorializing past derby winners, complete with poems("I'm born to race/ In my vessels only runs blood to race") and the sounds of their neighs, are selling briskly. Excitement, one of a score of recent books on horse racing, has sold 200,000 copies. Analyzing the craze, Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada suggests that it satisfies a psychic need in the world's most crowded country. "Merely living here," he says, "breeds friction, tension and frustration. Betting on the horses is a means of alleviating that pressure...
...rock has never sounded -or looked-better than it does in the movie. "Hold on to your neighbor," says an onstage announcer at one point early in the proceedings, and moviegoers should be sure to take the same precautions. The sound track comes rushing out of a four-track stereo system that manages to give the exhilarating sensation of total immersion in sound. Joe Cocker gives a gutsy, driving interpretation of the Beatles' With a Little Help from My Friends. Performing part of the rock opera Tommy, Peter Townshend of The Who tames his guitar like some wild electronic...