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...best songs on Dylan's undervalued Street-Legal are heartbroken ballads, wounded, surly and defenseless by turns. Dylan delivers them in typically left-field fashion, backed by three women singers as he lets the songs rip like some Bleecker Street parody of a Vegas lounge lizard. In concert, with billowing shirt, plunging neckline and a crooner's microphone calisthenics, Dylan works his way through his standard repertory and sometimes looks as if he is auditioning for The Gong Show...
After the team's last home win, enthusiastic Dartmouth fans tried to rip down the goalposts. That's kind of tough when your goalposts are two silos with a plank in between...
...message about the nation: that American life has not changed very much in 50 years -or at least the kind of American life lived in a town like Muncie. The Lynds, describing the wrenching dislocations that propelled America from a somnolent agrarianism to a modern industrialism, said that if Rip van Winkle had fallen asleep in Muncie in 1885 and awakened in 1929, he would not be able to cope with the new Middletown. The new researchers think his awakening would be far less rude today. Says Caplow: "If Rip van Winkle went to sleep 50 years ago and returned...
None of this would be so painful if it was rip-off plain and simple. The rip-off, however, is a righteous one. Harvard may in fact hate America but it hates this guy a lot more...