friday, October 17, 1975
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Once the J. Geils Band showed promise.
Bloodshot and Five Card Stud were sassy
and humorous. But since the band sounds'
the same as it did eight albums ago, it's
also possible that the band is now
formulized and predictable.
The formula is something like this:
The format uses four chords a song. About
halfway through, Geils plays a bombastic
solo similar to some lick he's played on
another album. Near the end, Peter Wolf
wails 16-count screams and heavy-breathes
such phrases as "Gonna rock your socks
off," in an attempt to emulate passion.
There's the feeling that the guys aren't
having fun with this stuff anymore. It's
more a matter i f grab the bucks while you
can and run.
One car not completely devoid of merit
is "Be Ceefur'-straight out of the rhythm
and blues tradition that made the J. Geils
Band famous. On the other hand, "Mean
Love" is a mockery of the blues. Even the
screams sound planned.
I understand that the J. Geils Band
stages a boogie show to end all boogie
shows. That may well be true.
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J. Geils, known for his frantic
stage strutting, is shown here in
a more passive moment. Last
night's scheduled per
formance of the J. Geils Band
was cancelled because a band
member became ill.
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Plurals of names. The headline read,
"Stars, Friends Help the Connors' Cele
brate Their Silver Anniversary," which
prompted Joseph D. Palumbo of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, to ask how to handle the
plurals of names ending in s.
As a general rule, plurals ol such names
are formed by adding s or es to the singu
lar. Following that rule, the headline writer
should have made it the Connorses. That
form may sound awkward to some people,
but they wouldn't blink an eyelash at the
Joneses or the Charleses or the Davises.
If adding an es does produce an awk
ward pronunciation-the Euripideses of
drama, for example-or produces ambigu
ity -the Louises (two girls named Louirs?),
for example -the use of an apostrophe is
acceptable. Normally, however, one should
not write the Smith's.
Question of time. Saying he is "slightly
confused," J.V. Williams of Philadelphia
asks this question: "If I had an. appoint
ment with someone for 3 p.m. and desired
to change it to 2 p.m., would I ask him to
move it forward or back an hour?"
If you consult Webster's New World
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Dictionary, under the adverb back you will
find this definition: "to or toward an
earlier time." That would seem to solve the
problem; you ask to have the appointment
moved back an hour.
But wait, hold it. If you look under the
adverb forward, you will find this: "toward
the front or a point in front or before;
ahead." That would seem to give forward
the same standing as back. So that's no
help.
We shall have to be, and will be, arbi
trary: Forward has a real connotation of
bringing something closer or causing some
thing to be earlier, whereas back has a
connotation of putting something,farther
away.
Therefore changing an appointment
from 3 pjn. to 2 p.m. would be moving
it forward.
One other complication should be
noted. When you are moving your clock
from 3 o'clock to 2, as at the end of day
light savings time, you are moving it back,
not forward. Ending the discussion on that
note should guarantee you a couple of,
nights of insomnia,
(c) 1975 Theodora M. Bernstain.
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