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...times sounded downright angst- ridden. "The more sophisticated, the more technologically advanced we become, and the more we feel we can dominate nature," he mused, "the more we feel that it's one of those difficult ironies to bear that we should actually depart and shuffle off this mortal coil." After years of stiff formality, he yearns for simple verities, and talked longingly about the rewards of working with his hands on a farm in Cornwall. "I think it's terribly therapeutic, funnily enough, and there's something very important about working on land and actual manual labor, mucking...
Which adds mortal irony to his recent return to the music industry with a big bam boom. Last year's album, New Sensations, captured a series of everyday experiences that Reed could describe with virginal excitement because they weren't drug-influenced. It was, to say the least, an upbeat album even if it lacked anything like a raw edge. And it gave us the first Lou Reed video, "I Love You, Suzanne," a video which combined staccato sensuality with a simple-minded song to terrific results. The album even included a reworking of an old Reed tune, "Fly Into...
Thurs: Lumiere Brothers First Program and Nanook of the North: 5. Fri and Sat: Success is the Best Revenge: 7,9. Mon: The Freshman: 5,8. Tue: The Mortal Storm...
CONSIDERING ITS TRACK record, it would be difficult to portray the Reagan Administration as anything other than the mortal enemy of open and unrestricted research. In the past few years, while ceaselessly warning about the impending Soviet military superiority (read Armageddon), White House and Pentagon officials have pointed the executive finger at that familiar storehouse for "excesses of democracy," the academic system...
...what is happening now. We cannot but be troubled by the approach that, as I see it, has begun to emerge in Washington. That is a scenario of pressure, of attempts to drive us into a corner, to ascribe to us, as so many times in the past, every mortal sin--from unleashing an arms race to "aggression" in the Middle East, from violations of human rights to some scheming or other even in South Africa. This is not a state policy, it is a feverish search for "forces of evil...