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...other tracks worth mentioning are a tremendously powerful version of Howlin' Wolf's "Evil" and "Mean Night in Cleveland", a number based on an old blues riff. Given the strength of these two cuts, both of which are excellent. Cactus might well consider changing directions (or is it assume a direction) and try to bring blues rock back into popularity...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: Long Island Blues | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Unlike "Dirty Business", "Henry" comes off as well on the album as it does live. The song jumps and moves as "fast, fast, fast" as its hero does. The most characteristic part is the guitar riff just before the end of the song. "All I Ever Wanted", as noted above, is another of those Dead songs, like "Cold Rain and Snow", which effortlessly expresses heartache and disappointment in love without being sentimental...

Author: By Dave Caploe, | Title: Riders of the Grateful Dead | 11/6/1971 | See Source »

...foreign correspondents. He reported the early years of the war from behind French and German lines and hired other dashing young reporters for the News, including his brother Edgar and Raymond Gram Swing, later radio's calm oracle. Mowrer covered the Versailles Treaty talks and the Riff war in Spanish Morocco, became adviser and go-between for diplomats and statesmen. He won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1928, returned home to become editor of the News for nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 19, 1971 | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...myself up for a rip-off if I ever got into any kind of hassle with the dude. Because if I got into a hassle, I'd still be a person, but he'd have to be a pig. It'd happened to me so many times, that whole riff...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Michael Crichton: Erich Segal Spelt Backwards? Take the Money and Run Dealing | 3/4/1971 | See Source »

...anonymity of the Faculty Club lobby where the poll has been conducted brought forth a variety of uninhibited comments on both sides. Remarks ranged from, "Keep out the riff-raff-why should we look like the rest of Harvard Square?" and "an infringement of academic freedom, but let us retain trousers" to "Coats hide bombs" and "Shouldn't Harvard, above all, tolerate and encourage individuality?" [To this last an opponent had added-"Individuality? yes, in the color of ties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Club May Soon Off Coat and Tie | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

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