Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to have an independent auditor," he said, charging that DeNucci is a "good old boy who will allow the people on Beacon Hill to feel very comfortable because he will not rock any boats...
...small band of Columbia students planned this multi-media event, featuring montages of surrealist films, psychedelic slideshow, sixties-style rock bands, laser shows, communal art projects and huge quantities of drugs. Nine hundred Columbia students showed up to attend. But this was not an eighties beer party with a nostalgic sixties decore, but a genuine revival of the mind-blowing, consciousness-raising sixties "happening...
...pottery of Karen Karnes is a reminder of why crafts appealed so deeply and directly in the antitech 1960s. An outsize salad bowl, meticulously turned from a single chunk of California black walnut by Bob Stocksdale, is notable for its revelation of the wood's grain. A fiddleback, hard-rock-maple- and-ebony rocking chair, a fortunate meeting of Copenhagen and Big Sur by California Master Craftsman Sam Maloof, invites the viewer to experience the best of contemporary artifacts while sitting down in comfort. Maloof, 70, bristles at new developments. Younger artisans, he said during a pre-opening tour...
Fans of Bruce Springsteen's unique brand of hard-driving, foot-stomping rock 'n' roll have long lamented that recordings of his live performances have been available only in illegal, bootlegged editions. On Nov. 10 that will change, when Columbia Records releases a five-record boxed set called Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live, 1975-85. This three-hour-plus compendium of concert excerpts by the "Boss" is expected to retail for between $25 and $30. Columbia plans an initial shipment of about 1.7 million copies...
...living up to his name. As the defiantly incompetent bass player for the Sex Pistols, Sid became the working-class hero and elitists' toy of pre-Thatcher Britain. To the romanticizers of punk anarchy, Sid's abuse of his body, his buddies and his music gave evidence of a rock Rimbaud. And squalid Nancy was plenty eager to share his psychopathy. Before long he was killing her loudly with his song: she died, apparently with his clumsy connivance, in 1978. He followed her a few months later...