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...album's cover. A color drawing of a good-looking oil tanker graces the front while funky old trucks of all varieties loll like disgruntled catfish around the borders of the back. The choice of songs seems right on schedule too, from "Looking at the World Through A Windshield" to "Semi-Truck," which features the lines...
...WHICH is not to say that the Airmen are not skilled at their trade. Cody's piano riff, are great if you notice them frolicking around in the background. And the pedal-steel player is also proficient, he is just asked to do too much. "Semi-Truck" and "Windshield" actually turn out as pleasant little ditties, well suited for bouncing along through the countryside. "Cravin' Your Love," a slow number, is perhaps the best cut on the album, simply because it abandons the café atmosphere for a fuller sound closer to rock and roll. "Tutti Frutti...
...monkey on his back." The chorus is a quasi lullaby from a child's perspective: "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes . . ." Another song tells of a man killed in a car accident because he had covered his windshield with flag decals: "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore/They're already overcrowded from your dirty little...
...Statesman (47,852), long dubbed the "Sterile Hatesman" because of its boring and often narrow-minded tone, quickly got Head's O.K. for a series on Yonkers Mafiosi that the previous managers had prohibited. Heavily Italian Yonkers was outraged, and Herald Statesman Editor Barney Walters had his car windshield smashed eleven times, but the paper was suddenly worth reading again. These days Head's papers even endorse Democrats from time to time, which would have been heresy under the Macys, but individual editors must check with him first. To capture suburban readers on weekends, a new Sunday edition...
...often brawled publicly with Barrymore, and she once tried to run down Actor Gary Lockwood with her car. When he jumped on the hood, she sped down Sunset Boulevard trying to shake him off while he pleaded with her through the windshield. "Tuesday did some wild, wild things and screwed up many, many guys," says Ryan O'Neal, a longtime friend. "She's highly sexual. It's what makes her interesting on the screen...