Word: horned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Side One finishes with "Indian Girl," a pleasantly poignant ballad with a fine horn arrangement by old Stones associate Jack Nitzsche. Frankly, I can't get a handle on it--it seems to be a vague diatribe against Soviet imperialism and Fidel Castro. Which would make sense, since both Castro and Jagger were recently named to the list of the Ten Coolest People in the World. Rivalry, then would explain...
...Republican right wing that loyally supported Reagan was very much in control of the Detroit convention?of its machinery, its rules and its platform. The Sunbelt's polyester suits and white cowboy hats and STOP ERA buttons far outnumbered the striped ties and horn-rimmed glasses of the Northeast. Recognizing that there was no way to wrest back the control that had once been theirs, the moderates simply sat back and watched the show. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte, a liberal firebrand on the platform committee at five previous conventions, backed out of serving on the panel this year. Said...
...celebrity glimpsed in a blue Mercedes limousine, racing to such appointments as a private tour of Versailles and a recital before President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing? Or was it the doppelgänger who never seemed to leave the rehearsal hall, reflectively pushing his horn-rims up over white hair and grilling the young violinists who passed before him: "Who did you study with? Why did you choose that piece? Can you explain why you are holding the instrument that way? Up, up! Higher!"? Or the virtuoso who appeared onstage with the Orchestre National de France...
...HORN...
...killing of a boy of 15. The situation is al most self-consciously classic, and there is a temptation to yell "Come back, Shane!" at the screen. But it is a pleasure to watch Steve McQueen's tough, weathered mug as he speaks the lines given to Tom Horn, an actual turn-of-the-century frontiers man. If there is a bit too much of this sort of satisfaction, with a great many shots of McQueen looking tragical, Tom Horn is a good, honest try, a western that does not parody itself. -By John Skow