Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three weeks, the Harvard heavyweights were flying high. In winning the San Diego Crew Classic during Spring Break, the varsity shell had out-raced most of the other top boats in the country, and was justifiably considered the best in the East...
...there is a serious problem with Lemonheads, it is that their approach is too straightforward and panders to too many established punk cliches. Their cover of "Amazing Grace" is yet another example of a disaffected group of young people defecating on a classic. Like Sid Vicious' rendition of "My Way," this tune is good for only a few minor chuckles before it gets shelved. Similarly, the straight thrash of "Rat Velvet" and "Sneakyville" is loud but ultimately generic...
...COVER OF THIS BOOK CALLS IT A "classic of the hard-boiled crime genre," but I can't believe anyone takes it so seriously...
...Play the Black and the Red Comes Up is part of a series of celebrated crime novels being reprinted for the first time by a small publishing house in California. This book might not be a classic, but most of the others in the series certainly are. The writers of the thirties captured the mood of hostility and hardship prevalent in that decade in ways that have been only weakly copied since then...
...want to read a truly classic crime novel, buy W. R. Burnett's Asphalt Jungle or Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. This book is worth the effort only if you have a few hours to waste on a quick light book and don't care too much about being surprised or challenged...