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Buffet's music traditionally conveys the atmosphere of the South Florida lifestyle via Buffett's own interpretation of current themes. The cultural traces include Heineken empties and fishing lines, spongecake crumbs and lime rinds. But in his latest album, "Coconut Telegraph," although familiar themes reiterate themselves, an underlying message glows in the brain like a neon Krystal sign: Even Jimmy Buffett is getting older...
FURTHER PROOF emanates from other tracks on "Telegraph." Buffett delivers the schmaltzy "Stars Fell on Alabama" with more sincerity than sarcasm, when one might expect the reverse from the iconoclast in him. On the Mac McAnally tune "It's My Job," he could almost pass for a neo-conservative. This track alone ought to sell thousands of copies of "Coconut Telegraph" for him down at the B-School...
...BEFORE the old fans bid their disappointed adieus to Mr. Buffett, they must tune in carefully to the one track on "Coconut Telegraph" which does not appear to have been written during a Geritol overdose. In a masterful study of life's doldrums and how to fight them, Buffett opens the second side with "The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful." The song begins with chatter and shrieks from the Coral Reefer Band and sundry other studio personnel, culminating in Buffett himself hollering "Don't ever start a band!" This song will make the album worthwhile for all diehard...
...goal, Secretary of Education Terrel Bell explained last week, was "to telegraph a message of change to the American people." Bell's zinging telegram: his department is withdrawing the regulations proposed last August requiring public schools to give bilingual instruction to children deficient in English. Bell, who served as U.S. Commissioner of Education under Gerald Ford, called the regulations an unwarranted Federal Government "intrusion on state and local responsibility." And he went beyond that to offer a blistering attack on the regulations as a symbol of the bloated Federal Government. The rules, he concluded, were "harsh, inflexible, burdensome, unworkable...
...manufacturing arm. Another possible action is reorganization of Bell's long-distance division into an independent subsidiary under separate management. Finally, A T& T will probably relinquish its holdings in one or more of the 23 regional Bell telephone companies. The most likely candidates: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, Cincinnati Bell, and Southern New England Telephone...