Music: Goose Pimples for All

Every now & then, as he goes self-importantly about his business, the American male tends to underestimate the power of his women. He forgets that they helped give him Prohibition and the sunken living room, that they choose his ties and the pictures on his wall, that they make him buy orchid corsages and join the Book-of-the-Month Club. Whenever this male forgetfulness about the real balance of power threatens to become habitual, the women tacitly band together to reassert their authority. They have just done so again by taking a pudgy, wavy-haired pianist from Milwaukee to their hearts and turning him...

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