Word: coversation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The best part of this volume can be found in the 16 stories following the unfinished novel. Five have never been published, and the rest were never collected in hard covers. It is difficult to imagine why not. Malamud hit his stride early, writing stories of old men trying to...
The most dramatic improvements have been made by U.S. automakers, who developed an infamous reputation for poor craftsmanship in the 1970s and early 1980s. Yet for every gain the Big Three have made, their Japanese competitors have continued to earn top ratings for quality and to expand market share. In...
Eric Clapton's Journeyman is a disappointing collection of apparently left over tracks from the August recording sessions, thrown together with some new, mainly pop-oriented material. A few pleasant tracks contributed by blues musician Robert Cray and three wonderful new covers of some 40-year-old blues tunes fail...
To give credit where credit is due, Williams does have the ability to write a seemingly infinite number of similarly insipid bubble-gum pop tunes about unrequited love. Clever listeners will note that every one of the five Jerry Williams songs on Journeyman covers this topic, each with an equal...
Brighter links to Clapton's blues-based past are provided on Journeyman in the guise of three fresh covers of old blues tunes--"Hard Times," "Hound Dog" and "Before You Accuse Me."