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...sounds he entertained in his head. In his determination to control everything around him, he scripted, down to the last pause, his "off-the- cuff" public interviews and devoted himself to a technology that would allow him, he thought, to create perfect pieces of music simply by splicing together flawless passages. His ambition, he once said, was "to try my hand at being a prisoner." He achieved that goal, perhaps, by locking himself more and more inside the echo chamber of his own mind, becoming, in the process, a man possessed, and not only by genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Mahler to the Elephants | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

After giving Regine Fagan a one-set head start, Mulvehal played flawless tennis, winning the final two sets, 6-1, 6-0. Mulvehal's passing shots fell just inside the line, and Fagan was left staring at the spots where the ball landed Mulvehal improved her singles match record to 20-12 on the season...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Blank Red, Edge Out Eagles, 5-3 | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...good news is that Joe Jackson has, by this time, developed into a nearly flawless songwriter. His 1979 debut album Look Sharp had few bad cuts, and since then Jackson has consistently experimented with standard pop forms and non-pop genres--among them big-band swing, cool jazz, salsa and orchestral music. Eleven albums later he presents us with pop music that almost guarantees an eclectic, hookladen album--which Jackson does deliver...

Author: By Glenn Slater, | Title: Great Balls of Fire | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

...Tomorrow's World" turns into "Me and You (Against the World)," a terrific horn-driven rocker that ends each verse with a dizzily assymetric tag line. Flawless, and followed by "Down to London," which would also be perfect except for the eerie similarity between its Latin American piano figure and that of Carlos Santana's "Evil Ways." This becomes a tragic flaw; the combination of tamborine, piano, and Motown harmonica, which would otherwise be irresistable, is undercut by one's idle speculation as to how Jackson's lawyer will deal with the imminent plagiarism suit...

Author: By Glenn Slater, | Title: Great Balls of Fire | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

With the game tied, 2-2, O'Connell--who played his seventh straight flawless game at shortstop--cracked the first pitch of the inning into left for a single. Eli starter John Bonfield overthrew second on a Tom Konjoyan sacrifice to advance O'Connell to second and then walked second sacker Jim Mrowka to load the bases with no outs...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Clutch Hits Lead Elis to Batsmen Sweep | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

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