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...while the ramble lasted. Then the national enthusiasm for folk music faded to its customary polite murmur. Rush was still fairly successful, but that was fairly disastrous in the platinum-or-bust pop-music world. Punk was big; should he dye his hair purple and wear Spandex? Or mess around with country rock? A couple of years before, he had bought a shaggy, overgrown 600-acre farm in the southern part of New Hampshire, his home state. He had a good view of Mount Monadnock and enough money to hide out for a year. As the fat years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Skid Marks | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...took an editorial mop to the mess, scrubbing with strokes so rigorous that they laid tire tracks of emotional trauma across the metaphysical entity that served as a literary cipher for my soul...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Brain-Addled Air Junkies | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...appearance, the freaks in this film do seem to be free, if only in a very misguided way, and seem infinitely preferable to the straight-laced types they combat. It's hard to describe a film in which every other word is "man" as profound, but the wonderful mess that is Easy Rider may just deserve that adjective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain America and Billy Dewitt | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...latter, the album's best and most aggressive track, is heavily layered with keyboards and Spanador's (of the Cult Jam) vibrant guitar solo. "I'm not your everyday average woman," Lisa Lisa sings. She tells us she will not be the victim of any relationship, because when you mess with her, "You're playing with fire/And you're gonna get burned...

Author: By Jeff P. Meier, | Title: Spanish Fly-girl | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...play an instrument, the only real way to go about learning about classical music is to go to concerts, listen to recordings, and secondarily, to read about it. Many people see classical music as an amorphous, uninviting mess because unlike many other types of music, it generally has no words to help you remember the melody. There is no substitute for listening, and listening intently...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Stop, Look and Liszten | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

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