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...couldn't even count on his music to be congruous with much he'd done before, either in tone or quality. He reveled in irresolution, letting himself drift with the fates -- or so it seemed. One of the many wonders of Across the Borderline is Nelson's paean to entropy, Still Is Still Moving to Me, which begins, "I swim like a fish in the sea all the time/ But if that's what it takes to be free I don't mind/ Still is still moving to me." But, as this album demonstrates, what might be running in place...
...sappy sentiment and popular mechanics of conventional country music. Across the Borderline breaks similar ground, only the raw material it uses is not myth. Nelson's version of the title track is a characteristic redrafting: a song about illegal refugees widens into a memorable evocation of rootlessness, helplessness and drift. Written by Ry Cooder, John Hiatt and James Dickinson for a film sound track, Across the Borderline has become a contemporary classic, sung by, among others, Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. But no one has caught so well as Nelson the melancholy and desperation at the heart of the song...
This is a dangerous concept to discuss without being accused of separatism at best and racism at worst. Identities are tricky things. Some define themselves by their contractions, their favorite sports, their religions or their political ideologies. Others drift culturally to those from the same geographical region. It is the very diversity of Harvard that forces us to specify which parts of our background are important to us. I am a Jewish public-school feminist from Seattle who writes for the Crimson. Most of my friends in at least one (if not more than one) of same categories...
...WOULD HAVE THOUGHT A BEATLES SONG could presage a scientific discovery? Astronomers report in the current Science that they have just found a wealth of diamonds floating inside the dense clouds of gas that drift between the stars. Warmed by stellar radiation, chemicals within the clouds emit ultrafaint light, a different sort for each kind of molecule. Observers have already used telescopes to identify the light from such substances as alcohol and formaldehyde. Now comes evidence of pure carbon in the crystalline form familiar to jewelers everywhere. Elizabeth Taylor needn't get excited: these diamonds are microscopic in size. While...
...least of which is time -- the earth appears as an endless, slow-motion demolition derby. Untangling cause and effect challenges both mind and imagination. Nature has had 4 billion years to jumble the record, and geologists not even two generations to begin to grasp the mechanisms of continental drift...