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...subway seat to the cripple thrusting a certificate of disability into his face. The street hawker of lottery tickets, with 50 mark bills stuck around hat band and belt, and a sign announcing the "security" to be gained from the lottery. Lapses of taste: barbed wire has been strung up to keep pedestrians from crossing medians and to protect flowerbeds. One would have thought, somehow...
DECEPTION" aside, the album falls into two loose suites. Side one attempts an historical statement, but it's a vague vision. "Snow in San Anselmo" is cemented in a real experience, but almost unreal in its rarity. It is a picture, a series of strung together images, missions, and massage parlors, pancake houses, and waitresses, barren and dull. The rhythm section plods its way through a descending progression, only to break into an uptempo jazz styled passage: walking bass, spiralling saxophone solo blended into the overall mix, piano chords cementing the whole, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra Chorus offering incongruous styles...
...gangster movies of the thirties and forties didn't need Technicolor bloodbaths to draw audiences. They were thrilling melodramas, gripping in their own right. In Dillinger, all we see are static moments in time without a sense of cause-and-effect. The bloody episodes are strung together with little continuity, merely reaffirming the adage that crime doesn't pay. Life is continually lost to no avail. The gangsters never even seem to have a chance to spend their money. How can we glorify Dillinger? He seems no more than a crook...
Then after an announcement that the second half of the show is "not recommended for children," the Otrabandists perform Stump Removal, a raucous satire on the evils of modern society. In the eerie light cast by pie-plate reflectors strung to a pair of Coleman lanterns, a mad scientist creates four human beings who romp about in long underwear of various hues and are taught to be guilty, suspicious, prejudiced and greedy. A second batch of people whipped up by the scientist revolts, however, and imprisons him under an upended grocery cart...
Tenters are forbidden from renting space, as are owners of superdeluxe mobile homes. "Large mobile homes-the ones that aren't really mobile-aren't permitted here," says Joe Agen, Nettles Island general manager. "We don't want clotheslines strung from trees, or anything like that...