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...MANIACS: BLIND MAN'S ZOO (Elektra). Love songs like petitions, songs of conscience that come straight from the heart. This is a band with folkie inclinations and rock grit, and a graceful way with a cry of pain: Poison in the Well, an unfortunately timely tune about environmental pollution, ought to be piped in to the Exxon boardroom...
...long pull; it is designed to cloud your judgment. The true rate on this deal is the "nationally recognized interest index plus 1.5%" that Amex talks about. But a footnote reveals this to be an index of short-term, tax-free bonds, the lowest-yielding animals in the zoo...
There is, of course, plenty of strangeness here: Gould rehearsing a children's choir while crouched in a pew, nothing visible but his hand; Gould serenading the elephants at the Toronto zoo by singing them Mahler at dawn. Yet at play within him was something deeper than mere oddity. Able to read music before he could read words, Gould found he could learn scores most easily while listening simultaneously to TV shows or the roar of a vacuum cleaner. Always, his remarkable gifts were shadowed by a perversity that drove him to torture the works he disliked (notably, most...
...still can't find a seat! It is the same impersonal zoo it has always been. Elbows, drinks, faces and now Winthrop ties are coming at you from almost every direction. There is a huge bottleneck by the Cheap Champagne Bar where seniors can prove how senior they are by drinking in the morning while fending off the banal chitchat of leering, over-friendly marshals...
...amendment, which allows the zoo to raise $1 million by charging admission, passed unanimously...