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...four bands that Eno introduced to the world, only Mars continues to play in the same vein. Unfortunately, their latest single reveals a band without a sense of direction. The other bands, though, have completely restructured themselves. As a result, "no wave" has become as meaningless a term as punk or new wave. James Chance of the Contortions has fired all the musicians from the original Contortions and has broadened his scope so he can become the George Clinton of rock and roll. Robin Crutchfield, organist from DNA, is on his own, developing moody synthesizer compositions, a la Eno. Arto...
...fact, included in the Constitution. I think: no ERA, no draft." But other feminists, including Eleanor Smeal, the current president of NOW, refused to link the draft with passage of the ERA. Said she: "We are full citizens, and we should serve in every way." In a similar vein, the Atlanta chapter of NOW urged Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia to support "only that legislation which would require draft registration for persons of both sexes...
...heart is connected to a heart lung machine which will maintain the body's circulation while the heart is stopped. In the photograph above, Dr. Crosthwait makes an incision to expose the coronary artery while Dr. Angel aids with forceps. They will then stitch one end of a vein which they have removed from the patient's leg to the coronary and the other end of this vein to the aorta in order to "bypass" an area of bad circulation...
Humor, James Thurber observed, "is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." That at least seems to be the governing philosophy behind many of the cartoons in this year's collections. The best in this vein is Gahan Wilson's gently crafted Nuts (Marek; unpaginated; $4.95), chronicles of growing up. "You who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't remember how it was to be a little kid," warns Wilson, whose intrepid, chunky comic -strip hero survives a series of boyhood crises. Pilgrim's Regress, edited by Joel Wells (Thomas More Press...
...pale-eyed, shambling, gangling, knuckly man, without enough unscarred hide left to make a decent lamp shade. Watchful appraiser of the sandy-rumped beach ladies. Creaking knight errant, yawning at the thought of the next dragon." John MacDonald acknowledges that his hero "could not have gone on in that vein without boring me. I had to shake him up." In Green, Travis gets rocked, socked and knocked from boots to brains...