Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bored. Then came the New York Dolls [Aug. 20]. They were all decked out in platform shoes and tacky glitter and they played with an energy I had never heard before. Their music was straight off the street, and I loved it. It's good to hear that David Johansen is keeping it alive...
...Most seem content, but a minority see China as a way station on a voyage to the land of the once hated enemy - the U.S. Others yearn to go to Canada, France or Australia. Said a North Vietnamese artist who has been resettled on a Chinese state farm: "I hear that life is not so difficult in America as it is in this place. Here, if you have something to wear you have nothing to eat or the other way around...
...this sounds like the kind of smart-alecky prognostication one might hear on a slow night at Elaine's - well, it is. The celebrity-studded staff of last fall's hit parody Not the New York Times is back, this time with a send-up of tomorrow's news, The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade 1980-1989. Due out next month, the 288-page, large-format book (Workman Publishing; $14.95; paperback $6.95) offers a fantastical but not utterly implausible history of "hot years, cold years, big years, little years, sweet years, sour years...
...find the Church of England a most lovable and most infuriating body," the new archbishop remarks. People do not hear its message about Jesus Christ, he says, "because they feel the church is linked to an outmoded intellectual system and is part of a dated social world...
...faraway hillside, Christ is delivering the Beatitudes. At the fringe of the crowd, where they couldn't hear properly even if they weren't wrangling among themselves, are the Monty Python troupe, misunderstanding. Blessed are the cheesemakers? The Greek shall inherit the earth? "I wonder which one?" someone asks, planning already to ingratiate himself with this fortunate fellow...