Word: fairport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FAIRPORT CONVENTION: RED & GOLD (Rough Trade). When this British group started up in the late '60s, their music was called "folk rock." Two decades on, the phrase is shopworn, but the band's music -- graced by some ghosts of ancient traditional melody -- is as splendid and mysterious as ever...
...answering the approximately 1,000 pieces of mail that TIME receives every week falls to Amy Musher, chief of the letters department, and her staff of nine. Reader reaction ranges from the whimsical (a man from Fairport, N.Y., responded to a story on how disposable packaging contributes to air pollution by writing directly on a McDonald's container) to the intensely curious (a subscriber asked about the origin of a quilt that appeared in a photograph of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's tent). Readers have even asked us to track down people in TIME pictures who resemble long- lost college...
...words of one patient, "friend and family to everyone in town." But last week Dr. John Kraai, 76, of Fairport, N.Y., a Rochester suburb, was under arrest on a charge of second-degree murder. The general practitioner was accused of carrying out a mercy killing by injecting three doses of insulin into the chest of Frederick Wagner, 81, a nursing-home resident with brain-degenerating Alzheimer's disease. Wagner was Kraai's friend as well as his patient. Monroe County Sheriff Andrew P. Meloni said that the doctor was "overwhelmed with emotion at (Wagner's) deteriorating condition." After Kraai...
That song, quiet, terrifying and seductive, is like a lullaby of doom, but it has the flavor of an old ballad. Indeed, Thompson's apprenticeship as part of the seminal English folk-rock band Fairport Convention provides a kind of melodic continuity with the past. "Folk doesn't mean anything any more," he says. "Our strongest roots are in British and Celtic traditional music. In terms of song structure, we come out of the Scottish ballad form more than anything else. But what we play is rock and roll." Thompson, son of a Scotland Yard detective who played...
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