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Activists in the New England area fought to dismiss the charges, part of a larger battle against state laws that insist SM is a form of assault...
...fire alarms). "They don't necessarily agree with me," he says, "but they know I'm not trying to hoodwink people." Cope has been confounding doubters ever since the Teardrop Explodes imploded in a fug of LSD and recrimination in 1983. Critics have found it all too easy to dismiss him as an acid - damaged jester who blew it. In fact, from his idyllic family home above Avebury, Cope has made a fruitful cottage industry of his cosmic obsessions and scattershot curiosity, recording scores of albums and writing successful and engaging books...
...dismiss the Smile live show on account of its broken protagonist is a simple reaction against the mythology. It is unlikely that any version of Wilson’s work—bootleg, official recording or live performance—will be evaluated separate from its surrounding narratives. Indeed, the Brian Wilson legend is at least as responsible as his music for maintaining his and the Beach Boys’ permanent respectability at the frontiers of pop music—frontiers of which Wilson himself has no knowledge...
...girlfriend and ex-producer. Like Let It Be for the Beatles, this album will never really be Smith’s, and future generations won’t even have a McCartney to reclaim the reins with a ...Naked release thirty years later. But to dismiss this album at any epistemological level is to deny its sweeping power and beauty...
...INDICATORS Not Over Yet U.S. regulators settled charges against Dutch retailer Royal Ahold and three former executives related to last year's 3900 million accounting scandal. Separately, a Dutch court rejected requests from the three - and one other exec - to dismiss fraud charges...