Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only times that Streep seems to be putting on an Academy Award performance, rather than taking you on a tour through the family album, are when she is with Nicholson. As Mark Forman, Nicholson gives a performance reminiscent of everything he has ever done. A little from Terms of Endearment, a little from Prizzi's Honor, even a bit from The Shining when Mark gets upset...
...which sets lyrics about South African repression to eerie synth guitar and tribal rhythms, proved to be a big hit at the recent Amnesty International benefit concert. But old Gabriel fans are going to hear little or none of his former complexity on So. Instead, Gabriel has filled this album with a bunch of love songs that are equally pretty and banal. In short, this will probably be the best Phil Collins album ever made...
...Here Comes The Flood." On the flip side of the disk, "Mercy Street" successfully tiptoes the line between Muzak and minimalism on the strength of poetic images like "Mercy Street in your daddy's arms again." While they don't compare with anything on Gabriel's third eponymous album, these two songs at least show that the former art-rocker remembers something from his past...
...comeback tour, playing their familiar tunes and performing their antique routines to SRO houses and screaming fans. The big difference from the old days, Dolenz maintains, is that "now it's mothers with their daughters fighting for autographs." The response has been so enthusiastic that a new greatest-hits album is selling well, and CBS may soon revive the series -- with a new generation of Monkees, of course. Meanwhile, the old -- or younger, anyway -- Monkees have already been back on TV: this year, 22 straight hours of the 1966-68 show were aired...
...holiday; the fireworks high above the harbor were the dazzling signature of a democratic free-for-all, overwhelming the staginess that came before and afterward. The Fourth of July weekend revealed, once again, the American spirit of freedom--and the freedom to be in high spirits, as the album of enduring images on the following pages will testify...