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...Torch the Kiosks...
...proves that Angelou has not had time to situate her remembered self into a story which transcends mere social history. She is still too carried away by the names she became involved with, and like the aritificial reminiscences of Bill Bojangles' narrative, she writes out a tawdry, almost boring torch song to the 1960s and the new Black awareness...
...ostentatious) has ever had the luxury of rattling around in. Even the American poor fall victim to a bizarre profligacy. Neolithic villagers periodically burned down their huts to incinerate their vermin; in the South Bronx people burn out their own apartments to obtain the welfare moving allowance, or landlords torch their buildings for the insurance: life among the ruins. Americans who feel sorry for themselves about their housing, middle-class Americans at least, have not explored the alternatives on the down side of civilization. Anyway, ideals of privacy, cleanliness, spaciousness and a certain domestic dignity are fairly...
...Independence Day, which falls on Sept. 15, the President of Costa Rica traditionally lights a "Liberty Torch" in the old capital city of Cartago and the next day addresses school children in the present capital of San José. This year things did not work out too well. At Cartago, President Rodrigo Carazo Odio, 54, was shouted down when he tried to speak, and later discovered that the air had been let out of the tires of his car. At San José he did not even bother with the customary oration. He quickly paraphrased the first verse...
...just that reason, she becomes ideal casting for a bit of nostalgic mythomania like Bette Davis Eyes. She does not try to camp it, or torch it. Carnes just glides through it, getting inside its slinky rhythm as if it were a cocktail dress cut on the bias. Whatever Carnes may think, this has less to do with rock 'n' roll than with the kind of straight-on pop craftsmanship that distinguished some of her previous albums, an unashamed hovering right above the middle of the road...