Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes. The best account to date about the ideas, politics and people responsible for the nuclear age -- to say nothing of the Age of Anxiety...
Pianist John Jarvis uses rock overtones and country twinges to bring a welcome whiff of down- home to the New Age...
National Geographic maps have long set the standard for cartography. They are so accurate that Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill reportedly followed the progress of World War II on them. Under the direction of Chief Cartographer John B. Garver Jr., the map department entered the computer age in 1983 with the acquisition of a specialized computer that enables mapmakers to modify roads, rivers, borders and country names without wholesale revision. Subscribers now receive six poster-size maps a year, each produced by the society's 130 researchers and mapmakers at a cost of $1 million...
...even know what it is anymore," says the composer-performer, but at least MCA signed him up. So far, it has released two inventive, ebullient Jarvis albums, hedging the corporate bets by including them in a series being marketed as New Age music. Jarvis' lilting, funky compositions do not fit very snugly in this category either. But if New Age is background music for fern bars, Jarvis brings to the genre a welcome whiff of down home and the backwoods...
...aspiring classical pianist, sporting heavy horn-rims and a bowl haircut. He quit as soon as his parents would let him -- at 14 -- and a year later dropped out of high school to scuffle around on the Los Angeles music scene. He was playing with Stewart by the age of 20, rocking out in performance, then going home at night to write "these real melodic, pretty songs." The fact that he finally has those songs out on record still does not entirely dispel confusion over what kind of music this is. Ask Jarvis about a jazzman like, say, Keith Jarrett...