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Well, this season's big moneymaker appears to be a Motownesque ditty called "Sledgehammer" by erstwhile art-rocker Peter Gabriel. As summer swill singles go, "Sledge" is a real doozy, the slowed-down tempo perfect for dancing (or doing anything else) in a sand dune. Perhaps if "Sledge" was a Van Halen song, I could really get excited. But coming from Gabriel, one of few rock performers who writes intelligent and adult material, this song and most of So hit me about as hard as a three-day-old Miller Light...
...disk, "Mercy Street" successfully tiptoes the line between Muzak and minimalism on the strength of poetic images like "Mercy Street in your daddy's arms again." While they don't compare with anything on Gabriel's third eponymous album, these two songs at least show that the former art-rocker remembers something from his past...
...TIME was a woman. Before that, my boss on the Harvard Crimson was a woman. At law school, one-third of my class was female. In fact, I met my wife in civil-procedure class." Had he belonged to the older generation, Thomas might have really believed that, as Rocker Cyndi Lauper says, "Girls just want to have...
Jimmy Swaggart went on TV three years after Schuller and claimed his first No. 1 rating by 1982. Not that Swaggart was unknown in the South. He had long been a radio preacher and top country-Gospel singer (his cousin is Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis). The son of an Assemblies of God minister, Swaggart preached at his first street meeting at 19. "Son," said a policeman who was there, "you've got the fire." He has it still. Anyone who believes that TV has made the "hot" Gospel hell-raisers obsolete has not seen one of Swaggart's sweating, mike...
Abbott is hardly a rabble-rouser. Says she: "I'm real Suzy Homemaker--Cub Scouts, baseball, sewing." In the living room a pair of Cabbage Patch dolls sit in a rocker, and a crucifix is on the mantle. The big, office-style water cooler is the one unorthodox fixture. Nodding in the direction of her daughter, she jokes, "When she's bad, she gets tap water...