Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amazing how many students didn't start thinking about AIDS until Rock Hudson died," says Sandra Caron, health educator at Cornell...
...worked the all-night shift and went to music school by day; he wanted to be a rock star. It wasn't an easy job, he said; just last night he'd thrown out a drunk who pulled a knife and lunged for his throat. Thank goodness for the regulars. Not one of them thought twice about dropping their coffee lifeline and jumping to the guru's defense...
...interesting even though he often lapses into banal generalities of the kind he criticizes in students' writing. He says at one point (and we apologize to Marius for using a lengthy quotation, a technique to which the report objects): "Our students have an almost eerie ability to identify rock groups on hearing a few bars of the music. They know much about sports. They can make exquisite discriminations about the relative merits of various commercials on TV." We appreciate his tact; after all, Marius might simply have called us stupid...
...Conformity," he writes, "is not the fragrance found in my fantasies." But that is not quite the whole truth. He wants it all: to enjoy the rock star's sweet sybaritic life while residing in the house of propriety. On the road he is not immune to celebrity groupies, yet he remains devoted to Toddy, his wife of 39 years. He surely takes pride in his rowdy eminence, yet he considers himself and his rock peers mere "moons and satellites" to Hollywood stars like Bogart and Hepburn; a man who has spent a third of a century in the show...
...sing," he said last week. "It is my philosophy to sing what the people want." So people attending a Chuck Berry concert will hear the '50s jukebox blowin' the familiar fuses. Those who see Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll will find a musician who charms and exasperates. Those who read The Autobiography will have a great time inside the perpetual-motion mind of rock's prime performer. The devil is alive and well. And onstage or on the page, he still makes motorvating music...