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...audience; of his last three albums, it is easily the most listenable. Robbie Robertson's eerie guitar riffs on Planet Waves have been replaced by Scarlet Rivera's soothing, melodic violin line. Planet Waves was a depressing album--even Wedding Song which was cited by Newsweek as evidence of Dylan's new "mellowness" contained disturbing lines about love which "cut like a knife," about loving someone "more than madness." Blood on the Tracks was a transition, containing some of the bitterness of Planet Waves, but, particularly with Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, it pointed towards Desire...
That pessimism is abstract, based, he says, on his conceptions of the nature of man and history. It certainly isn't derived from his personal success or prospects. His thrice-weekly column is currently syndicated in some 140 newspapers, and he writes a biweekly column for Newsweek that began last week. He is a regular commentator on a Washington TV station, and frequently appears on PBS's "Agronsky and Company". He has already established himself as one of the most sophisticated conservative thinkers in the country--much more complex and coherent than William F. Buckley Jr., immeasurably superior...
...Brooklyn native, Brownmiller, now 40 and single, attended Cornell, leaving before graduation to study acting in Manhattan and to begin a career as a kind of intellectual odd-jobber: as a Newsweek researcher, a civil rights worker in Mississippi, a TV reporter in Philadelphia and a staff writer for the Village Voice. In the late '60s she joined one of the first feminist groups in New York and, says Brownmiller, "all of a sudden I knew I was home...
...took over the paper (which her father had bought during the Depression) after the 1963 suicide of her husband Philip. Since then, she has become one of the most powerful women in America-and one of the best, toughest publishers in the field. Her Washington Post Co., which includes Newsweek, six broadcast stations and 49% of a Canadian paper mill, rang up revenues of $287 million last year...
...Post last year accounted for 35% of the company's $287 million in revenues and 35% of its $28 million in profits. Newsweek and Newsweek Books accounted for 43% of revenues and 36% of profits, broadcast operations represented 13% of revenues and 26% of profits...