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...HARD TO believe that an established rock personality would let himself be harrowed by a wave of bad reviews. After the critics unanimously panned Jethro Tull's Passion Play, the band's leader Ian Anderson threw up his hands in disgust and disbanded one of rock's most illustrious combos. The percentage of the record-buying public influenced by reviews, though, is so insignificant that Anderson's self-mortification was astounding...
...back. Not being able to satisfy the critics, Anderson decided to satisfy himself instead. And now, eight months later. Anderson has left his "retirement" with a recognition that aggression is man's most predominant drive. His deliberations on this subject were set to music, forming the nucleus of Jethro Tull's latest album, War Child...
...critics in general, he seems to have take to heart some of their objections. War Child is divided into a series of ten songs instead of being one continuous composition. And, reflecting critical influence even more strongly, its musical foundations are taken directly from the Benefit album--Tull's most critically-acclaimed work. War Child, then, is not only musically enjoyable, but gives credence to the concept of constructive criticism as well...
...many artificial parts was lawyer Frank Tull. His teeth had been fashioned for him and fitted to his jaws by a doctor of dental surgery ...He had a silver plate in his skull to guard a hole from which a brain tumor had been removed. One of his legs was made of metal and fiber; it took the place of the flesh-and-blood leg his mother had given him in her womb ...In his left arm, a platinum wire took the place of the humerus . . . One hundred years after he died they opened up his coffin. All they found...
...when Author Charles Finney created him as a character in the novel The Circus of Dr. Lao, Frank Tull was considered to be, at most, the product of a fertile imagination. Yet, less than 40 years later, the concept of semi-artificial man no longer seems as farfetched. Though modern medicine has yet to produce a real-life counterpart of television's Six Million Dollar Man* it has developed workable replacements for many important body parts, and is steadily moving toward the day when hospitals may well have to follow the lead of auto-repair shops and add spare...