Word: borderland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happened until after the concert. They were shattered, and, for a time, considered that in some way they might be responsible. The Who knows as well as its fans that, since the group's beginning, it has always lived at the outer limits of rock. That is the dangerous borderland where the best rock music is made, the music that lasts and makes a difference. Elvis Presley lived there. So still do Chuck Berry and John Lennon, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke and Jimi Hendrix died there. And The Who has taken...
...There were some sensationally exciting questions about the borderland between volition and involition in human behavior," said University of Chicago Law Professor Franklin E. Zimring. "We could have learned a lot from this case about human behavior." Why didn't that happen? Zimring implicitly questions the entire adversary system of justice: "One side gets up and yells white and the other gets up and yells black while we're talking about shades of gray. There is no room in the law for the advocacy-or the exploration-of the shade of gray...
...Borderland by Neil Claremon. 192 pages. Knopf. $6.95. This remarkable novelette refutes an ancient adage: blood can be coaxed from a stone. The stone is that adamantine sector between Mexico and the U.S. The blood is the fervent tale of an American scientist, J.P., and his Indian mistress, Tsari. J.P.'s gift is an ordinary one: he can only find water under dry land. Tsari has more profound talents: in trances she can heal wounds, commune with animals and see the human soul. It is a secret that she comes in time to share-with ambiguous and perhaps dire...