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...first time he heard that instrument. "I was four or five years old," says Bela Fleck. "My brother and I were on my grandparents' bed watching TV when The Beverly Hillbillies came on. The theme music started, and I had no idea it was the banjo. It was Earl Scruggs in his prime. I only remember hearing something beautiful. It called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: He's Finger-Pickin' Good | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...walk away in a little less than seven years. That is why a number of states also tack on additional years for the use of a firearm during a crime. Some states, like Illinois and Maryland, have created a penalty of life without parole. That means, says Chicago Judge Earl Strayhorn, "a person goes in alive and comes out dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death by Gun: One Year Later | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Ditson Professor of Music Earl Kim said Friday that he "could not remain a part of the censorship process," although he said he supports the NEA and Chair John E. Frohnmayer's opposition to the Congressional restrictions...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Music Prof Resigns From NEA Panel | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

Among those who have gained admission to the upper crust's official ranks are the offspring of the late Sir Lennox Berkeley, composer-son of an illegitimate member of the Earl of Berkeley's family. Said his widow, Lady Elizabeth: "My only regret is that my husband did not live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Unbarring the Bar Sinister | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...Michael Gross and Reba McEntire) eager to employ their expensive arsenal against something, anything. The middle class, all four of them, is variously unaware, unconcerned and unprepared for emergency. Populism being the operative spirit of this genre, it is up to Perfection's two-man lower class, Val and Earl (adorable Kevin Bacon and solid Fred Ward), to get their betters organized. They make their living doing odd jobs, bicker laconically, dream of urban glamour, can't imagine how to obtain it. But staring into a graboid's gaping mouth, they're the kind of guys -- resourceful, practical, unflappable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Whole Lot of Quaking | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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