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...Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, the 3-hr. 29-min. documentary that hits DVD racks Sept. 20 and will be shown on PBS a week later. First Dylan reconfigured the folk song into a political statement as personal as it was universal, writing instant anthems like Blowin' in the Wind and The Times They Are A-Changin'. Then he amped up his surreal postromantic ballads and became a rock star...
...taken all the elements that I've ever known to make wide, sweeping statements which conveyed a feeling that was the essence of the spirit of the times." Where the poetry came from--the epic, apocalyptic vision of A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, the piercing simplicity of Blowin' in the Wind--well, that's a secret...
...been wandering, rankling, challenging and extending the musical margin for more than two decades. Don't think twice, anyone: it is 22 years since Blowin' in the Wind appeared on his second album, and a flat 20 since Like a Rolling Stone was released and kicked rock songwriting onto its head. Incredible that there could have been such a radical change in his style in just two years, from the plainspoken beauty of Wind to the diabolical and delirious poetry of Stone. There was hardly a beat for transition, just an amphetamine rush of allusive imagery and electric boogie fused...
...television network logos replete with spinning globes and sparkling call letters; scientific simulations displaying molecules at magnifications no microscope could achieve; and animal, vegetable and mineral objects more realistically portrayed than ever before. Says Computer Artist William Reeves of Lucasfilm, who created the image of windblown grass he calls Blowin' in the Wind: "I'm not going to claim it's just like nature, but I'm pushing in that direction...
DIED. AGNES (SIS) CUNNINGHAM, 95, who co-founded, with her husband, the influential folk-song journal Broadside in 1962; in New Paltz, N.Y. During its 26-year run, the magazine published more than 1,000 songs, including Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind and early works by Phil Ochs, Janis Ian, Tom Paxton and Buffy Sainte-Marie. An accomplished accordion and guitar player, she performed with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger in the 1940s...