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The title cut comes next, backboned by an acoustic bass line that reverberates with classical elegance and never stops through this rambling, lyrical, apocalyptic 11-minute street poem. "Street Hassle" is divided into three movements, each with the same bass line, intermittently using piano, sax, electric bass and quixotic female...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Up From the Streets | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

The fact that Hannah's characters and settings are chiefly Southern lends the book a flowery tang. "Beauty is fleeting," says a woman in one story. "What stays is your basic endurance of pettiness and ennui." Though Hannah readily exploits the southerner's license to orate, he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tall Tales | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

The focus does not quite work the other way. Most Americans may never have heard of Steinberg, but the influence of that clear, epigrammatic line and dry wit has been felt throughout American design and illustration for almost two generations. Moreover, his motifs are almost subliminally recognizable: the wry face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Steinberg | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

ROCK'S NEW WAVE is a broad and diverse movement, encompassing all sorts of bizarre and seemingly apocalyptic visions. Listeners, in fact are often tempted to make comparisons to the Fall of Rome--in the time honored introductory Social Studies fashion--when confronted with the sight of a man being...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Punk Without Punks | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

Will Evangelicalism simply go on consoling people in the face of alienation and apocalyptic fear, a not inconsiderable mission? Or will it move toward a "Third Great Awakening" that might help to regenerate American life? That is a matter for history to decide. In the history of Evangelicalism itself, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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