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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ways of enjoying life--love, lust, escape, delight--into the word "dreaming." In the title cut from Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mitchell is still looking around, still trying to lose herself in dreams, in Hell. The song has a dark feel to it, almost predatory, with a driving beat punctuated by sinister, percussive bass notes. Mitchell sings that the serpent in her cannot be denied. But neither can the antithetical pull for clarity and simplicity, for the innocent child within...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Angels and Devils | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

TINA WEYMOUTH is one of the rarest oddities of the rock world, a female bassist, and she lays down a strong beat, along with drummer Chris Frantz. Talking Heads' music is very slick and sophisticated, moving from Latin shuffle beats, through disco pop to straight rock...

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

...hurdles it was B.U. in the top slot again, as Terrier runner Tom Mahan beat out Paul Organ and John Dwyer of Harvard, setting yet another facility record...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Trackmen Place Second, Women First in GBC's | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

Roschin can touch the heart, but he also smothers its beat in interminable bouts of rhetoric. If a character says, "We are all in this together," rest assured you have not heard the line for the last time. He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Texas Detente | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

Life begins at 54 for Liza Minnelli and Shirley MacLaine and Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. Oh yes, and for Bianca Jagger and Tennis Star Vitas Gerulaitis and even Bella Abzug. Inside Manhattan's hottest disco, Studio 54, the elite meet to gyrate to the beat, watch the light show, gape and be gaped at. Since the club opened nine months ago, Photographer Adam Scull, son of Art Buff Robert Scull and his estranged wife, Ethel, has been there almost' nightly to snap the customers because, he says, "it's something that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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