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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Look Back is a good album but not a perfect one; a few of the numbers such as Ain't No Big Thing tend to drag. But there are moments of dark, understated glory here that make you forgive the occasional missteps. The title track is the headiest moment; when Hooker sings, "I'm gonna live for the future/ not the past," using that rumbling, Richter-scale voice to toss off decades of heartbreak, the listener is touched with a redemptive awe. Hooker is 79 years old now, and has all but stopped touring. "I'll go out once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: JOHN LEE HOOKER: BLUES AND DUES | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Glynn Tipton, for example, is expected to testify that he talked with McVeigh at a drag race in Topeka, Kansas, and that McVeigh was seeking two bombmaking chemicals. Frederick Alan Schlender, the manager of the Mid-Kansas Coop in McPherson, Kansas, will testify that on Sept. 30, 1994, someone closely resembling Nichols bought 40 bags of ammonium nitrate, weighing 50 lbs. apiece. On Oct. 18, Schlender has said, he bought another 50 lbs. During a pretrial hearing in February, Schlender testified that the man "said he was a wheat farmer. It was an unusual transaction. It wasn't common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...gangsters and bootleggers in the '30s, fascists in the '40s, communists in the '50s and civil-rights leaders and antiwar protesters in the '60s. The enemies, always changing, are changing still, and the agency that confronts them now faces problems that would bedevil any FBI director trying to drag the agency into the modern age--which helps explain why Louis Freeh is having a very bad spring break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FBI: UNDER THE MICROSCOPE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...Hooker?s classic song Dimples, and Irish pop star Van Morrison contributes some cagey vocals on the aching ballad 'The Healing Game.' '"Don?t Look Back' is a good album but not a perfect one; a few of the numbers such as Ain?t No Big Thing tend to drag," Farley says. "But there are moments of dark, understated glory here that make you forgive the occasional missteps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

...drag man...a real drag," muttered one tie-dyed-in-the-wool Ginsberg devotee who goes by the name "Bongo...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Beat Guru Ginsberg Recalled by His Fans | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

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