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The Take It Easy Hospital Dispatch

Remember Ahmet Ertegun!.

Take It Easy Hospital is the name of a rock band from Iran which is at the center of "No One Knows About Persian Cats, "a film reviewed by The New York Times on April 16. The last paragraph of A. O. Scott's piece read:

This film is careful to avoid explicit political statement, but its reticence makes its critique of the Iranian regime all the more devastating. It will also make anyone who had grown cynical about the transformative, galvanizing power of popular music - an idea that might seem quaint to Western democracies, though less so in the former police states of the Warsaw Pact - think, and possibly believe, again.

Belief in democracy is given support in the Mighty Quinn by the work of Kurt Godel and Otto Rank.

There was a palpable sense of excitement working through the hallways of the headquarters of the "I'm So Restless" Appreciation Affiliate ("ISR"AA) when news came in that a band had chosen to call itself Take It Easy Hospital. Those folks would also like the record to show (it's an addendum to the "Vatican Faults Dylan Dispatch", if you please) that the universal acclaim that greeted the Pope's statement that "penance equals grace" extended throughout the "ISR"AA.


 

 

 

Illustrations: "No One Knows About Persian Cats" poster, another Pete Townsend editorial.

 



 

 
 
 
 
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