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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authenticity to keep the film original and diverting. Rudolph has captured a convincingly real sense of the offstage lives, complete with amiable wild-man behavior, recording session, groupies, tour bus talk, and deal-making-and breaking. And the image of a corrupt dise jockey (Rip Torn) who insists. "Payola isn't dead down here--it's not even sick" is candidly refreshing. Although the music segments in the film do not match Nelson's or Kristofferson's "real life" shows, they do impart a pleasant, down-home charge of energy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down-Home Sleaze | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...channel my discontent at an imperfect world into concrete action to better my community. We are "fired up about something [we] care about, "Mr. Rosenthal, and just because our discontent doesn't make the 11 o'clock news, or The Times, or The Crimson, doesn't mean it isn't there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fired Up | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

LaCrosby explains that the three singers considered the idea of singing songs from only one genre, but decided that it would be less limiting to explore areas of music which are performed infrequently at Harvard. "We had all done jazz before, and modern pop just isn't played enough. We felt it would be a really nice mix and we would have a chance to spread our wings a little...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingson, | Title: Just the Three of Them - And Music, Too | 5/3/1985 | See Source »

...intolerable oppressions of a brutal, racist regime should be more germane to our lives than explicating a Richard Wright poem or memorizing the formula of trinitrotoluene. Well, yes, perhaps South Africa should be more in our thoughts than such dross of academe, but for most of us it isn...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: The Divestment Wonder-Drug | 5/2/1985 | See Source »

...isn't it arrange that Harvard tells you to go home on steak night? The Food services administrators really think that without a "no-interhouse" rule, we would all go to each of Harvard's 13 dining halls and collect T-bones...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Of Waffles and T-Bones | 4/29/1985 | See Source »

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