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...only person who is sanguine about Marxism's future. But that's no mystery to anyone who knows the jovial, square-jawed Minnesotan, whose deliberate step and stolid bearing (6 ft., 210 lbs.) evoke his earlier days as a lumberjack and steelworker. He's a rough-hewn American version of the Soviet bear, who would look equally at home in overcoat and shapka on the Kremlin reviewing stand with Brezhnev (his favorite Soviet) or in a gimmie-cap at a Fourth of July picnic in Des Moines. He mixes an earthy Midwest charm with a trace of Finnish ancestry ("yahs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last of The Red-Hot Believers: GUS HALL | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...RAGGED GLORY (Reprise). Yes, yes, Neil Young's been through more changes than the Dow Jones industrial average, but when he locks in, he's tough to beat. He locks in here. Backed by his favorite band, Young cooks up his best set in years: the sound is rough-hewn as ever, and all the fury is intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 29, 1990 | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...Although many of them have played with him for nearly two decades, he does not socialize with them or hang around making small talk after a gig. Nor do the other musicians, most of whom come from the slick Dixieland school, share Woody's abiding passion for the rough-hewn New Orleans style or his aversion to tuning up. Despite the different approaches, says pianist Dick Miller, the band tries mightily "one night a week to create the collective sound that resembles the music he loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...surprise to us to learn how modern Missoula was," says museum director Wes Hardin. "The image of a wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker devotees alternate five-card stud with games like Hold 'Em and Crazy Pineapple. Warns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Exploring The Real Old West | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...mayor's rough-hewn style can provokeangry responses. At one recent council meeting,Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 accused the mayorof trying to "smear" speakers by digging up thecity's ancient history...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Ping-Pong, Popsicles and Politics | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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