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...Zandt, after all, did spend a formative and formidable nine years as Miami Steve, the driving force and antic soul man of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. His guitar was the band's bedrock, and his harmonies with Springsteen were communions of friendship with the audience and with Bruce. He was at Springsteen's side during the first days of major glory in the mid-' 70s, when stardom broke so heavily, and he was there for the years of uncertainty and renewed triumph that followed. Van Zandt did some outside record producing during that time too, calling himself Sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: That Road Is All Mine | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...really a great team" or just quite a good one "that plays awfully hard." Six-Foot Guard Mark Wade, a selfless passer unnoticed at his first stop, Oklahoma, operates the offense. An outside shooter named Gerald Paddio has come along to encourage opponents to emulate Tarkanian's bedrock man-to-man defense. "The only ones crying about the ((new three-point)) 19- ft. rule are the coaches who like to play zone. If anything's hurting college basketball, it's zone defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Making Its Points, the Hard Way | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...deliver on his repeated warnings that continued detention of Daniloff will sour all U.S.-Soviet relations. But for the moment, the President is acting like anything but the hip-shooting cowboy of liberal legend and his own past oratory. That he is willing to risk alienating his own bedrock conservative constituency for the sake of keeping the hope of an arms-control deal alive says much about the pressure of presidential responsibility in reshaping the attitudes of any occupant of the Oval Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Have It Both Ways | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...damned as "intellectually shaky" the bedrock concept, first defined by the court 60 years ago, that the 14th Amendment applies key provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states, and not just to federal cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Radicals in Conservative Garb | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...have been the target of intolerant behavior from both groups, and find distasteful in the extreme any measure of intolerance from a member of an oppressed group; needless to say, I have many days when I despair of social harmony. Still, it is precisely because I am at bedrock an optimist that I am writing this letter, and because it is in my best vested interest that a rapport between Jews and Blacks once again flourish. Editorials such as Mr. Barron's do nothing toward fostering a dialogue that will bring that rapport to pass. Rafia Zafar Assistant Secretary W.E.B...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Debate | 3/4/1986 | See Source »

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