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...selling well this season and deserve their $12-plus pricetags. Two books chronicle English-rock-innovator-turned-serious-actor David Bowie; the best of which is a wide edition called Bowie: An Illustrated Record. The Book of Rock Lists by Rolling Stone critics Dave Marsh and Kevin Stern is chock-full of lists of groups with the worst names, the best clothes and other minutiae. Christgau's Record Guide by Village Voice critic Robert Christgau describes--and grades--the rock albums of the past decade. And The Compleat Beatles, a $13.95 compendium of sheet music, interviews and pictures, makes...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The Most Literary Season | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...Hunter, once the driving force behind Mott the Hoople, released an album with half of Springsteen's band three years ago that was chock full of tunes and was played to win. You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic was melodic, introspective, and fun. Now Hunter has returned to his homeland, hooking up with half the Clash, and the production hand of Mick Jones has added the 'Clash sound' to Hunter's--laser gun synthesizers, up-front guitars with a wall of various whatevers always in the bacgrould. The results are mixed. Somethines Jones pulls up an average song, like...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Demons of Pseudo-Euro-Disco; Jeffreys, Hunter, Kinks & Stones Redux | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...most of whom own large economic enterprises. The first group won't be helped much, for the only government officials climbing down from their backs will be the ones who sign social services checks; the second will be helped enormously, for, in the current pariance, the Reagan package is chock full of "goodies" for the truly greedy...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: No Last Hurrah | 8/4/1981 | See Source »

Spawned by the success of Soldier of Fortune, Eagle (dedicated to "Adventure, Survival, Truth") covers the death-and-dying scene from the specific--"The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife"--to the more general--"Holocaust Now!" It is chock full of "intelligence reports," including this "critical piece of intelligence from Washington, D.C." Just after the election of Ronald Reagan, a clandestine session was held near DuPont Circle in the nation's capital. At that meeting, the cream of the old radical circuit sat down to plan out the formation of an "anti-Reagan" movement, modeled on the anti-war movement of past...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Love, Death and Taxes | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...future, Alger Hiss's claim of innocence - these are the stuff of enduring debate, and even when his case is exaggerated, Hook never fails to stimulate or enlighten. He is less successful when he praises. John Dewey's writings are described in dust-jacket prose: "chock-full of fruitful insights" and at times he can sound like Kahlil Gibran: "Democracy is like love in this: It cannot be brought to life in others by command." It is fortunate for author and reader that benignity is a minor component of this collection. The central theses of Philosophy and Public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rising Gorge | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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