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...Israel's small but vocal band of about 400 active feminists is making an issue of local censorship of Playgirl magazine. Steimatzky's Agency, a Tel Aviv-based book and magazine distributor, gave up censoring female nudes in Penthouse a year ago, but it still insists on blacking out the male genitals in copies of Playgirl. Explains Proprietor Yehezkel Steimatzky, 75: "Everybody is used to nude women, but nude men are new on the Israeli market, and I am afraid it would upset the status quo." The feminists have filed a suit demanding an end to Steimatzky...
...which comes on top of state and federal business levies. Beame even tried to win approval of a tax on beer, though his own administration had worked feverishly last year to prevent two breweries from leaving the city. Writes Ken Auletta, a sometime Democratic Party official who is a vocal critic of New York's government: "The city's unique form of socialism just doesn't work in a general capitalist economy. People who cannot afford it, after all, have a choice: they don't have to live or keep their job-producing business here...
...finest vocal on the album, in the song "Meeting Across The River," capsules the false bravado of a Jersey hood asking his friend Eddie for a ride through the tunnel to New York City, where his connection is waiting. But the effect is almost ruined by the lilting trumpet accompaniment, which would be perfect for sitting-on-the-front-porch-swing-sniffing-the-honey-suckle-with-yer-sweetie, but here, makes mush of the vocal. The longest song on the record, "Jungleland," also suffers from over-orchestration: a string section introduces the central piano theme and channels the song...
...every "Jungleland" though, there is a "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," which is not complex musically but, like the bass line in "Sunshine of Your Love," allows for incredible solos. Contrasting to the tightness of "She's the One" is the emotion of "Night," where Springsteen's vocal and Clarence Clemon's blaring, buzzing sax transcend the simple message--"You work from nine to five/And somehow you survive/Till the night"-- and make boredom and anguish palpable...
...seems to have settled on the automobile metaphor as the primary archetype of Jersey adolescence--after all, exhaust fumes probably account for his vocal grittiness. Songs like "Thunder Road" rumble, muffler-less, with pounding guitars and bass...