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...fuse of number of times during the first ten days of the occupation, and AIM leaders prepped the embattled village for a pitched battle. Russel C. Means, the top AIM leader, seemed almost exultant at the prospect of a confrontation. But the bust never came...
...title recalls Marx, but it is actually taken from Talleyrand: "He who did not live in the years before the revolution cannot understand what the sweetness of living is." The film is about a young man's struggle to reconcile radical politics with an almost lavish romanticism, to fuse Marx and Talleyrand in his lofty, poetic soul. Revolution has the intimate feeling of a personal memoir, of experience hardly assimilated and still freshly felt...
...drinks a quart of oil every 1,500 miles. Still, the car has a lot of selling points, including a fast pickup that carries it from 0 m.p.h. to 60 m.p.h. in about 9½ seconds, and sheer technological novelty. The latter is tied to a two-year-long fuse, but Brown insists that Mazda, which has been building rotary engines for five years, will stay ahead of Detroit. His chiefs at Toyo Kogyo apparently agree. They have increased production at their Hiroshima plant from a monthly average of 13,000 earlier this year to 20,000 at present...
...Easy," and "Nightingale." Essentially the same song, they stand apart from the other, more derivative songs. And yet, because they're both by Jackson Browne, the implications are clear Eagles have no direction. They've drawn what they needed from what went before, and are seemingly unable to fuse for themselves a sound...
Eagles has managed to fuse the country and the folk rock into a sound from the southwest. I can't fault derivation; most of my favorite rock bands are derivative--the whole concept of rock music is, ultimately, derivative. But Eagles's music is derivative of a genre that has gone out of style. I loved the Springfield five years ago, but, music being what it is, they wouldn't do me much good...