Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greens and black combat boots load trucks and Jeeps with weapons, tools, radios, medical gear. At 6:35 a.m., a 48-vehicle column rolls out, past the sleeping homes of Clove Lake Park, across the Goethals Bridge and into New Jersey. In twelve hours the 101st will reach Fort Drum on New York's border with Canada to begin its annual two-week summer training as scouts for the 8,500-man 42nd Infantry Division, Army National Guard...
...horses were replaced by tanks in 1942, but a certain amount of cavalry elan persists. Thoughts of home and work are replaced by simpler concerns -food, a cigarette, a breakdown ahead. Vocabularies slide easily into the four-letter Anglo-Saxon mode. At dusk, when the group rolls into Fort Drum, the barracks area is like a class reunion as men greet one another after a year apart...
Caligula opens with the portentious pounding of a drum, as a Bible passage about gaining everything but losing one's soul (get it?) appears on the screen in blood red. We then see a cheery young Caligula frolicking in carnal bliss with his sister, Drusilla. But soon, with neither reason nor warning, ambition seizes Caligula. He thinks that his grandfather, the Emperor Tiberius, wants him dead, so he has Tiberius killed and assumes his reign. Caligula thinks he's a god; he says so at least half a dozen times in the long, tedious course of the film...
...life-size inflatable dolls. The five albums previous to Hold Out have the character of a series of tapestries depicting the coming of age of the Orange County rustic, a convincing though perhaps legendary character who--with the sun and stars, the night, the desert sand, heartbeats and the drum's beat--has embroidered into the Southern California landscape around him an evolving vision of the Apocalypse. And in songs like "Jamaica Say You Will," "Our Lady of the Well," and "For a Dancer," Browne populated that world with hold-outs, who stand apart from, or at most knee-deep...
...Jackson," the unveiling of the mass-marketable Browne stamped out by the starmaker machinery of the LA/Hollywood music industry. Either way, a healthy thread of the Old is still noticeable in the fabric of this studio slick, neon release: the familiar fibers--sun and stars, heart-and-drum-beat--have been incorporated in what feels at first an itchy, polyester-rich blend to those expecting Browne redux in torn T-shirt and broke-in jeans. And though the traditional elements remain, their combination is not the poetry alternating precision with ambiguity that made Browne's early albums all the more...