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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...video production crew is preparing a video tape of a play co-authored by a Harvard undergraduate and hope to show it on local television, Thomas A. Kramer '78, the co-author, said yesterday...
JACKSON BROWNE may well be the prototypical Southern California rock and roll star. Like the rest of the L.A. pop crowd, he's known for squeaky-clean vocals, introspection run rampant, a reliance on the studio pit crew of J.D. Souther, and Eagles Don Henley, Glenn Frey et al, and an obsession with The Road. The latter has been the dominant image in his music since his second album, both as a metaphor for change and a literal determinant of modern life. "Take It Easy" and "The Road and the Sky," from his second and third albums respectively, were...
Running on Empty represents the concept album taken a step further--its thematic unity is bolstered by some imaginative production work. One of the cuts, for example, Danny O'Keefe's "The Road," begins in Browne's hotel room, played by a skeleton crew of two or three pieces. During a pause between the second and third choruses, crickets can be heard in the background; when the song resumes, it's the full band playing it on stage a week later. The effect of splicing the two performances together may seem overly cute, but the result is surprisingly moving...
Irion worked on a railroad crew in Billings for three summers. Wielding a sledge hammer from dusk to dawn, he packed on extra muscle for battling under the boards for rebounds. Irion's father, who got him the job, worked for the Milwaukee Railroad Company before becoming a government railway inspector. Most of Irion's co-workers were illegal aliens from Mexico known as "wetbacks" because they "swim" the Rio Grande to get to Montana...
...fact, had been hoping to create a broad centrist coalition stretching from moderate left to moderate right. In his speech, he denied having engaged in "obscure maneuvers." He declared: "Our efforts must be to extend, and I say clearly extend, the present [center-right] majority. The larger the crew, the farther the ship will go." The speech surely battered chances for any sort of center-left deal after the election, which means that Giscard will really need all the crewmen he can muster -including the Gaullists as well as those key voters in the undecided column-as March approaches...