Word: finest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surveying the twisted trees bending in the wind. "Why sit indoors? None of the soaps are on TV. Why watch the news when you can see the hurricane with your own eyes?" Danger? "Who cares about flying roofs and airborne automobiles," said the student, clad in his finest hurricane garb: shorts, a t-shirt and Ray-Bans. "I've got eyes, I can duck." Nice shades...
...Ways," though, shows the 39-year-old Young at his most self-assured since 1979's "Live Rust," arguably the finest live record in rock history. As the leitmotif cut "Get Back to the Country" (not the same as "Are You Ready for . . .") suggests, Young, the co-sponsor of last Sunday's 14-hour FarmAid extravaganza, has found what he says he wants to do with the rest of his life. And he's found the right people to do it with: those old outlaws, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, are on hand for several duets...
...always followed such mediocre transitional albums: "Everybody knows This is Nowhere" (1969) and classic "After the Goldrush" (1970) followed the disappointing album, "Neil Young"; the dark, powerful "On the Beach" (1974) and "Tonight's the Night" (1975) followed the drunk and disorderly "Time Fades Away" (1973). Moreover, Young's finest work has always had a country tinge: witness "Harvest" (1972) and "Comes a Time...
Take the case of Ramy Rajballie, a soccer midfielder from Toronto and member of the Canadian junior national team. He'll be joining the five All-Ivy selections who boosted Coach Jape Shattuck's squad to one of its finest finishes ever last season...
Four years ago, Tartikoff had few viewers with whom to share the experience. Hill Street Blues may be the finest dramatic series American TV has produced, but in 1981 it was a glorious anomaly on NBC's schedule. "It was also the very first show whose demographics were young, urban and upscale," Tartikoff says. "Consequently, nobody saw it, because the other 21 hours of NBC's prime time had mostly rural appeal and skewed older. Its lead-in shows were utterly incompatible; first Walking Tall, then B.J. and the Bear. If you can find one person in America who actually...