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There are no sets, and the production opens, a bit unpromisingly, on what seems to be a family gathering: 20 men and women standing in a semicircle on a bare stage. But, after the first number, one of the men begins to sing. Imagine a bagpipe full of gravel wailing into a nor'easter, and you have some idea of his doleful song and the others that punctuate the evening. "Ay! Ay! Let your bowels be torn from your body because you don't know how to love," goes one typical lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Flamenco, Simple and Smashing | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Maybe so, but a growing number of people seem to be willing to suck into their lungs the smoke from cocaine in a far more powerful form known variously as base, baseball, gravel, rock, roxanne and, more commonly, crack. Crack is cocaine boiled down (it makes a cracking sound when heated) into crystalline balls that can be smoked. "Crack is like throwing gas on the cocaine fire," says Manhattan Special Prosecutor Sterling Johnson. A gram of coke costs about $100, but two beads, or pea-shaped pieces, of crack go for $10, enough to guarantee a single user...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Crusade | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...into the air to shower down and create another glowing peak that can be seen for miles across the tableland. "They say McDonald's has the Golden Arches," he chuckles. "We do better." Storing corn outdoors is risky. Bell lays down a sheet of porous polypropylene, adds gravel and lime, concrete containment walls, aeration tubes and fans. When he is finished, he will cover the corn with plastic held down by old tires. He does not want to keep the corn that way longer than a few months. If he does,"hot spots" will develop where some corn decomposes, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...much more peace with a full stomach than a hungry one. We have hungry people in this nation, and we could feed them," Bradley said, furrowing his brow in a look of disgust. "But there is politics, and corruption." Afterward, three game Soviets took turns roaring down a gravel road on a Honda three-wheeler. When the last one disappeared over a hill for a moment, no one seemed to notice, not the American who owned the machine and not the Soviets who might / wonder if the rider would ever come back. Trust and goodwill come so easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Mississippi: Cruising Peaceful Waters | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...seriously-folks, the best thing about The Cube is the company Dolby keeps, not his natty nuttiness. The funk on this song is slow and smooth, like honey over gravel, eased by Clinton sidemen Dennis Chambers and Rodney Curtis, spiced by the Brecker Brothers' smart horn playing, and sassy, improvised background vocals by Lene Lovitch and George Clinton...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

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