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...keyboard. In the title song, Springsteen summons the spirit of the hero of John Steinbeck's famous novel about migrant workers, The Grapes of Wrath: "I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light/ With the ghost of old Tom Joad." This album too has the power to haunt...
...have to make them stretch for a whole week. If in recent years Springsteen had lost touch with his proletarian passions, he's rediscovered them with "The Ghost of Tom Joad," a new collection of songs about desperate lives along the Mexican border. "This album has the power to haunt," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Springsteen's sound, which is somewhere between his stark 'Nebraska' album and his serenely wrenching hit 'Streets of Philadelphia, is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, a harmonica and a keyboard...
...disturbing, as are the individuals whom it portrays. Rachel's disdain for traditionalism becomes ours and we long as for its cradication. But, the bitter taste the movie leaves us with is the realization, that like family ties, these ties to tradition are virtually indestructable. They will continue to haunt even those who try to escape...
...Harry Evans, the head of Random House, along with some luminous stars of TV journalism--Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings and Barbara Walters. It was a pretty predictable guest list for this crowd. But there was someone sitting at the same table who does not make a regular haunt of Fifth Avenue apartments. Uncharacteristically dressed in a suit, his beard a thinning shadow of its former self, Fidel Castro, 69, nibbled on gold-embossed cookies, told jokes and held forth on everything from elections to heaven and hell. High above Central Park, the absolute leader of Cuba was excellent...
...would come back to haunt the Crimson...