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...division. Lovich seems to have tak en vocal seminars from Nico and Patti Smith. Her songs (many co-written by Lovich) are feckless threnodies about lovelessness, entrapment and alienation. Sweet, who is sunnier in disposition, lays down a sort of teasing, jailbait rock that relies on snappy melodies and gum-cracking sensuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POP: Sounds in a Summer Groove | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...sure what music is today," Eric von Schmidt says. "The word is applied to punk rockers and discos and everything down to bubble gum... I wonder when they're going to get to the pablum audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Once and Future Folk Scene | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...nearly four hours, a continuous stream. Knots of arrested protesters at just inside the fence, singing or chanting anti-nuke slogans, or chatting amiably with police while waiting to be taken to precinct headquarters in Yaphank for booking. "If any of you people would like a piece of gum I have some in my back pocket," offered one teen-ager, her bands bound behind her back. "I can't get it, of course...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Welcome to Shoreham | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...before me. Relax for once, after three brain-wracking years at school. Live in Cambridge, maybe have another baby, buy my furniture at Design Research, maybe write, maybe get a job. As I sat watching Picnic at Hanging Rock this future started to look very vapid. Those blue-green gum trees. Gates fastened with rusty coat hangers. That still clean land. I have to go back...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: Down Under | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Mike Stenhouse, Harvard's varsity right-fielder, said yesterday, "I'm sure the team will be willing to try the new gum. I chew a lot when I get tense and generally grab whatever gum is around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrigley's Answer To Bubble-Yum: New Hubba Bubba | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

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