Word: jam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which Jagger and Richards built the many styles they explored and eventually mastered later on. It is, for instance, the conscious distance of the bluesman from his subject that gives Stones songs their biting irony. And at the same time, it is the reckless abandon of a Chicago blues jam that separates the Stones from those who would polish rock and roll into a smooth, blunt weapon. The band members never saw themselves as a part of a British Invasion--not musically, at least. They wanted that "really good funky American sound," from the start, Richards announced in 1964. That...
...Police remain second only to Abba in international record sales. Abba is an ineffectual, apolitical pop group bordering on muzak. The Jam, the most popular, most political, raw yet delicate, trio in England, will never sell as many albums worldwide as the Police do in America alone. Being on a sales level of Abba shows the kind of "importance" this trio cares about, and makes all the more repugnant Ghosts' French song, its song that murmurs. "When you've made your secret journey, you will be a holy man" and its whole slick psuedo-euro-disco flavor. I hope they...
RUSSELL HOBAN'S most celebrated creation is a badger named Frances. Few American children make it through kindergarten without reading Bread and Jam for Frances, Bedtime for Frances, or Hoban's four other stories about literature's most appealing marsupial...
...Riddley Walker is no children's story. From bread and jam and bedtime, Hoban has gone to create a remarkable novel about the most terrifying issue of the grownup world: the abuse of power...
...very funny) story of a family--"marooned" on the island where they have always lived--that is killed when as Associated Press helicopter crashes from on high, the even more morbid obsession with games ridiculed in a lampoon of a future sport-mad-society where 197,000 would jam the Yale Bowl to see Harvard (and the races from Belmont) on large screen t.v. Yes, he hits some easy targets, but easy targets are often the largest ones, and hence worth hitting. For the most part, the short sketches are better than the long sketches, and the sketches in general...