LETTER BOMB FOR TED BAXTER: GANG OF FOUR OUT OF UNIFORM
Whatever it is that's doing a George Romero on the American Dream is finally starting to do it in such bastions of good life as Minneapolis, Minnesota. People used to sit around here and feel safe from everything but six-month winters. Not any more.
LETTER BOMB FOR TED BAXTER: GANG OF FOUR OUT OF UNIFORM
Laura Fissinger
Whatever it is that's doing a George Romero on the American Dream is finally starting to do it in such bastions of good life as Minneapolis, Minnesota. People used to sit around here and feel safe from everything but six-month winters. Not any more. Can you imagine Mary Tyler Moore living on unemployment, selling all her Air Supply records, and getting drunk with Lou because she's starting to get PISSED OFF?
Hang on, Mary. Here comes the Gang Of Four.
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Because they 1) have had no "hit" up until now, 2) do not "project personality," thus encouraging general public buzz among the hip and groovy, and 3) seem pretty goddamn SERIOUS, Gang Of Four's rep among the unconverted centers around oh-yeah-the-political-band-whoaren't the Clash. Even the Clash have had to wrestle with the edict that says political bands can't be any fun; after all, Nero wasn't taking stands while Rome burned, he was fiddling.