Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusual to see the stands at Bright rock with cheers of "MELROSE, MELROSE," whenever the game got physical last season. But his 15 points and quick skating ability attest to his offensive skill...
Just in case anyone in the audience thought that Bob Dylan might be mellowing in old age, Wednesday night the raggedy man of rock decisively laid those fears to rest. Singing before an odd mix of ties and tie-dyes at the Boston Opera House, Dylan stormed through a hard-edged set that emphasized his independence and uncompromising nature. His band was tight, his guitar sounded terrific, and he even threw in a large chunk of the old songs that made him famous. If this seems like a good recipe for a concert, it was. Sort...
...spent its 40-minute set proving that it should have stayed in Texas. Jason and the Scorchers played a number of painfully bad songs, all in the same chord, and the group left the audience numb with fear. This garbage band did its best to sound like outlaws of rock 'n' roll, but despite lead singer Jason's 10 gallon hat, The Scorchers more resembled Megadeath than Tom Petty. But their set wasn't a total loss; the guitarist had some mean tattoos...
...pictures of it -- pictures of living history, which means, especially, pictures of human behavior. If he doesn't get a thrill out of that job, if he doesn't wake every morning with excitement and go out with his cameras hanging on him like a gold prospector with his rock hammer in hand, % he's no good. Over the years some photojournalists have said to me, "if they didn't pay me for doing this, I'd do it for them for nothing." I too have felt that way since, more than a half-century ago, as a reporter...
...most apt, it was never entirely true. For much of the 1950s, the civil rights movement gestated in Southern black churches. Most important U.S. publications failed to take much notice. But Flip Schulke persevered by contracting with black-owned Ebony and Jet. With the deployment of troops in Little Rock in 1957 and the rise of civil disobedience, the work of Schulke, Leonard Freed, Dan Weiner and others received wide exposure...