Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second-banana Hollywood cowpokes in westerns including One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Blazing Saddles (1974), but whose indelible screen moment was his cowboy-hat-waving, yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those days you didn't make a dime doin' rodeos...
...audience that wants its rock rougher. He irrefutably proves that hard edges run a poor second to deep thought. Hearts and Bones explores the gap between thought and feeling. Think Too Much is a classic statement of the quandary ("Have you ever experienced a period of grace/ When your brain just takes a seat behind your face") that keeps the record buoyant even at its bleakest. A piece of compact virtuosity, Hearts and Bones ends with a tribute to John Lennon that is a little like a streamlined time transport. "It was the year of the Beatles...
...spiral down to a compact center of truth. Bluey has been writing letters to a girl named Ivy, and hiding them in loose leaf binder. His sister Greer begins getting bold by revealing that she has read all the letters. Bluey responds that "Ivy's probably got maybe a brain tumor or a limbic disorder. She thinks her brother had something to do with killing Lennon." And so they continue, countering with brilliant improvisations, until the inventive defenses are laid bare...
Aren't to anybody really. Or they're to every girl. Only I don't deeply know any other girl. They're to a fantasy I have in my brain...
...Discount Records, Assistant Buyer Dennis MacDonald said that record sets are popular gifts. MacDonald added that such musicians as Brain Eno, whose record set sells for $70, is "ambient or Harvard Square type music" and sells well...