Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CHESS (RCA Victor). You missed the show, now buy the record: not a rock musical at all, but the most eclectic score of the '80s and the hottest night in Bangkok since Yul Brynner met Deborah Kerr...
Maggie's efforts to reunite Fiona with her son Jesse, a member of a local roadhouse rock band, are futile. The young adults still seem to be attracted to each other, but they are too touchy and impatient. Maggie finds symptoms of the age by comparing today's music with the songs of her generation: "It used to be 'Love Me Forever' and now it's 'Help Me Make It Through the Night...
YOUR FACE LOOKS SO FAMILIAR. When the newest conservative saint, Robert Bork, was introduced by Phyllis Schlafly at her Eagle Forum reception in the New Orleans Museum of Art, the glossy crowd applauded him like teenyboppers stomping for George Michael. The Supreme Court Wanna-Be appeared uncomfortable with his rock-star-like reception. After denouncing liberal judges -- "We want a court, not a bunch of left-wing politicians in robes" -- Bork revealed that his newfound celebrity had robbed him of his privacy in public. He noted that at a supermarket recently a woman came up to him, tugged...
...cuts on Folkways date largely from the Depression and are bracketed by tradition. The gospel group Sweet Honey in the Rock opens up the set with a sweetened version of Leadbelly's Sylvie that nicely smartens up tradition, while Pete Seeger shuts things down with a tub-thumping rendition of Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land, with assistance from Sweet Honey, the revered guitarist Doc Watson and a chorus of school kids. It is Bob Dylan who builds the bridge into the present. His version of Pretty Boy Floyd, performed with acoustic guitar and harmonica, is filled with...
...DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED, warn the prominently displayed red-and-white signs at the U.S. Army arsenal at Pine Bluff, Ark. Situated about 35 miles from Little Rock, off a busy state highway, the facility is the only producer of toxins for chemical weapons in the U.S. Since work resumed in December after a 19-year halt, the arsenal has manufactured a chemical called DF, which becomes nerve gas when mixed with alcohol. Workers are also busy incinerating some 94,000 lbs. of an obsolete hallucinogenic agent known as BZ. Yet area residents profess to have few fears about the facility...