Word: lydon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOHN LYDON already has his special place in the rock and roll pantheon. As Johnny Rotten (a stage name he now disdains), he fronted the quintessential punk rock band, the now defunct Sex Pistols, and wrote most of the songs on what is arguably the greatest debut album ever, Never Mind the Bollocks. The obvious problem for an artist meeting such staggering early success is what to do next; Lydon's anxious quest for originality, for a break with his "public image," has resulted in Public Image Ltd., for the most part a hopelessly jejune effort that might leave...
Public Image Ltd. is also the name of Lydon's new band, composed of ex-Clash guitarist Keith Levine, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Donut. Wobble only learned the bass last year; Donut is as leadfooted as most rock drummers. But Levine really understands his topped-up guitar--his ingenious and adventurous departures from twelve-bar rock and roll demonstrate that here--and his partnership with Lydon promised much more than what...
...reevaluate people with abnormally high scores." Other law schools--particularly those that use a "rolling admissions" process--were more affected by the skewing. Many of these institutions, including Harvard Law School, did not reevaluate applicants who had been admitted before the schools discovered that the scores were skewed. Patricia Lydon, dean of admissions at the Law School, says the reason her office did not re-examine early admittees was that in general "the ones we decide on early are very strong all around...
John P. Smith, media director for ETS, said last week the purpose of the change in the LSATs was "to give the better students a chance to excel, by sprinkling rougher questions throughout the upper range of the LSATs." Before ETS altered the test, Lydon explains, "there was a lumping of people scoring in the upper-600s, and an extreme drop in the over-700 scores. What they did was to add more difficult questions, in order to make the scoring curve more like a normal bell-curve distribution...
Patricia A. Lydon, assistant dean and director of Admissions and Financial Aid in the Law School, said yesterday the committee needs experience with the program to determine whether an allocation of $50,000 a year will be sufficient...