Word: augustness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AUGUST SNOW. Novelist Reynolds Price proves a born playwright in a poignant trilogy (the other plays: Night Dance, Better Days) about thwarted hopes in a small North Carolina town; superbly staged by the Cleveland Playhouse...
...Sandinista leader insisted that his own government was still committed to the February ballot. His intention in canceling the cease-fire, he said, was merely to hold the U.S. and Honduras to the terms of the accord signed last August to dismantle the rebel operation by Dec. 5. The U.S., to guarantee that the vote takes place, has supported the contras in their refusal to disband until after the Nicaraguan elections, though it has prohibited offensive operations. In this regard, Ortega's ploy may have worked. Sandinista and rebel leaders appear likely to hold new talks soon...
Eric Clapton's Journeyman is a disappointing collection of apparently left over tracks from the August recording sessions, thrown together with some new, mainly pop-oriented material. A few pleasant tracks contributed by blues musician Robert Cray and three wonderful new covers of some 40-year-old blues tunes fail to carry Clapton's latest album to a level significantly above that of any of his other projects of the past 10 years...
When the lyrics come in, it becomes even more obvious that "Pretending" is another pop-oriented track executed under the influence of Jerry Williams, Clapton's songwriting partner who was responsible for much of the August album...
...that every one of the five Jerry Williams songs on Journeyman covers this topic, each with an equal lack of depth. And if these songs do not sound particularly fresh, that may be because four of the five were written at various times between 1985 and 1988, during the August and Behind the Sun recording sessions...