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...album has a solid contemporary sheen, but it is never polished. It is as if Springsteen had buffed up a brand-new car with a sandpaper chamois. Using only simple instrumentation, with an occasional synthesizer riff or guitar blitz, Springsteen has created a modern surrogate for the resonant mystery on old blues and early rock records. This makes Tunnel of Love close kin to his 1982 solo effort, Nebraska, which was meant to sound homemade. Tunnel of Love takes that approach even further, into the mythic heart of American music and some slat-roof recording studio -- maybe on a prairie...
...street corners and in train stations are impeccably printed surreal posters that seem only incidentally to be advertising, but in the pages of magazines there is artsy typographical chaos. There are delightfully showboating aluminum office towers (such as Fumihiko Maki's Spiral building in Tokyo) as well as brand-new buildings made entirely of secondhand wood (Atsuo Hoshino's House of Used Lumber, on the outskirts of Tokyo). The familiar and the provocative, the traditional and the radical, the ascetic and the deluxe, the indigenous and the foreign -- all coexist in contemporary Japanese design...
Auntie Ree emerged in the early '60s as part of an impressive sorority -- soul sisters from all over. Cousin Dionne, working within the ricochet rhythms of Burt Bacharach's songs, built a brand-new bridge connecting gospel urgency to show-tune sophistication. Barbra Streisand moonlighted from Broadway and never went back. The jazz inflections of Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughan enriched the vocabulary of pop. The megaton voices of Jackie DeShannon, Dusty Springfield and Timi Yuro lent powerful shadings to love songs. And the girl groups -- all the -elles and -ettes, the Supremes and Shangri-Las -- kept teen pulses surging...
...equilibrium within the structure. Miraculously, to date he has managed to do that, as if he were conscious of the fact that the Constitution reflects his nature, mirroring his competing tendencies to squat adamantly and lurch suddenly. In a way, he continually rediscovers himself in that house, a brand-new American for every decade of problems...
...failure was nothing compared with the magnitude of the feat. For the first time, the Soviets successfully tested the brand-new Energia, a 220- ft. rocket capable of thrusting more than 100-ton payloads into orbit, at least four times that of the U.S. space shuttle's orbiter. A Soviet TV commentator declared in a post-launch videotape that the new rocket could lift into space "the blocks from which cities will be built." Even U.S. observers were impressed. "It's the most powerful rocket in the world -- ever," said James Oberg, a Houston-based expert on Soviet space ventures...