Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took only hours. Wednesday morning, Berri summoned reporters and TV crews to the hot, crowded basement under his office in West Beirut to broadcast "my answer to threats from America." First, Berri announced the release of Palmer, 48, a hefty air-conditioning technician from Little Rock, who was seated next to him. Palmer suffers from high blood pressure and a heart condition...
...indecision ended in 1976, when Paik became a U.S. citizen. He had grown ) comfortable with the "playfulness and childish ideas" of his newfound land. He also sees signs that his adopted country may be catching up with him. "Rock videos very interesting," he says. "Some of them are getting so good they're scaring me." And he is sure that coming to the U.S. changed his career. "America give me access to high tech," he says. "Here I get a sense of what high-tech equipment can do to sensibility. American kids have moved from Sesame Street through The Electric...
Sure, in this movie it's miners fighting for their claims instead of farmers fighting for their land, and a rock to be cracked instead of a tree stump to be moved, and a little girl becoming a woman instead of a little boy emulating a hero. But changes of scenery and slight changes of situation can't fool anyone who has seen the original. This is Shane all over again...
...that the Talking Heads, a band which led a pack of subculturists in the 1970's, have heaved themselves into the mashed potatoes of popular music? Probably not. Despite indications of falling into the ever-increasing heap of commercial rock, the Talking Heads are far from doing...
Probably the boldest and most subtle experiment in the latest album is with popular music itself. As Spinal Tap showed, mimicking bad rock is the best way to criticize it. Likewise, the songs Little Creatures dip into the sounds and dull themes of pop music, but carefully refrain from making the complete dive. Instead they go just far enough to poke fun at the music during the journey. The chance they take, nonetheless, is a big one, considering they are dealing with a genre they usually take no interest in. This sort of dialectic-bashing implies an experiment that...