Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folk movement in the sixties, but both transcended their roots in range of emotion as well as in diversity of influences, One, Bob Dylan's Blood On The Track, immediately shot to number one on the charts. The other, Richard and Linda Thompson's I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, sold less than 50,000 copies and disappeared until last year when Rolling Stone, "rediscovered" the rerelease on the miniscule Carthage label...
...acount but it certainly does not siphon off one's creative juices. While Dylan has managed to put together only two records of any quality in the past decade, Thompson, now divorced from Linda, has delivered a string of ten killer albums culminating in his most complexly beautiful since Bright Lights: Across A Crowded Room...
Much of the show was very sad, filled with songs telling of his troubles with his wife, Linda. Opening with a note-perfect rendition of "Where The Spell Is Broken," he followed with Glow I Wanted To" from Hand Of Kindness and later "Withered And Died" from Bright Lights, two morbidly depressing songs about the frustration of helplessly watching your relationships disintegrate. The ghost of Linda hovered in every note Thompson sang or played...
...Review's real secret, Owen maintains, amounts to code cracking; that is, mastering E.T.S.'s system for building an SAT and then turning that system to beat the test. A representative midrange SAT question is answerable by most bright students, eminently flunkable by slow ones, and something between for the middling muddler, whom the Review nicknames Joe Bloggs. Thus the square root of 4 is no good for the middle-to-hard portion of an SAT, since anyone may guess the right answer to be 2. But the square root of 9 is perfect: easy if you know your algebra...
With $20 million in its first 17 days of wide release, Mask is this year's first strong entry in the weepstakes. Its subject, Rocky Dennis, was the butt of one of God's practical jokes. This bright teenager had a preternaturally sweet disposition--and the grotesque face of Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion. Rocky's rare disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, ended his life at 16, in 1978. And yet (of course) he was one of nature's noblemen, loved by puppies, blind girls and the motorcycle gang his mother Rusty hung out with. "I look weird," says Rocky (Eric Stoltz...