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...plans to take his protest to Pansey, Ala. Actually, he might just as well burn the air waves. Just a twist of the AM dial demonstrates how far things have gone. On the average, 15% of air time is devoted to songs like Do It Any Way You Wanna, Let's Do It Again, That's the Way I Like It and I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You. Radio's hottest song right now is also the most lubricous: Love to Love You Baby, Donna Summer's marathon of 22 orgasms...
...though his imagery was accessible and his themes were easy to relate to, he successfully managed to avoid banality. Springsteen grasped one of the basic problems of rock and roll: as a mass-culture, relatively unsophisticated art form, it deals best with simple ideas and emotions, conveyed straightforwardly ("I wanna hold your hand", "I can't get no satisfaction"), and because of that, runs the risk of becoming mediocre. Springsteen doesn't try to be another Dylan (and he's not), but he is an insightful story teller and rock and roll balladeer, and that is more than...
...takes its cue from a familiar situation--a jaded senior, unable to find inspiration in his term paper, thinks back to "that night four years ago in Greenough" when three sleazy muses wrapped in feather boas slinked into his room to ask provocatively, "In the mood for some...conceptualization?... Wanna...toy with some ideas...
...those 50 and up. At the St. James Theater one can hear / Didn 't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, I'm in Love With Vienna, I've Told Ev'ry Little Star, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, I Wanna Be Loved By You, and I'm Just Wild About Harry. The Fs have it, but don't forget Sophisticated Lady, Ain 't Misbehavin', and Me and My Shadow...
...Worlds when he observes that in America, "the peddler becomes the boss and the Yeshiva student sits at the sewing machine." At one point, as her neighbor Mrs. Kavarsky is squeezing a groaning Gitl into a corset for that sleek American look, she tells her, "You wanna be in America, you gotta hurt...