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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Britisher Billy Bragg titled his last album Talking With The Taxman About Poetry after a 1926 poen by Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. But a typical Bragg concert, like the sold-out show last week at the Paradise, is more like "Talking With the Rock Star About Foreign Policy...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Sizing Up a Genuine Bragg-Art | 8/14/1987 | See Source »

...worker had pushed the boulder onto a large flat area, he said, adding that "the crew was operating under the plan that the rock would hit and stay there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boulder Kills Seven on Colorado Road | 8/11/1987 | See Source »

...Hopkins, spokesman for the Colorado Highway Department, said a crew was clearing rock above the roadway and that a front-end loader dislodged a large rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boulder Kills Seven on Colorado Road | 8/11/1987 | See Source »

However, "the rock proceeded over the edge of the large flat area down through several hundred feet of trees onto the highway below, where it collided with the bus," Hopkins had said earlier in a prepared statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boulder Kills Seven on Colorado Road | 8/11/1987 | See Source »

Even Perelman's enthusiasms are vinegary. He had famously collaborated on Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, but when an editor plans to anthologize portions of the film scripts, their scenarist responds, "If illiterates and rock fans (synonymous) can only be led to purchase my work by dangling before them the fact that I once worked for the Marx brothers, then let us find some other publisher." James Agee and Dorothy Parker were friends of Perelman's, but readers would never know it from his keyhole view of the beach house the two shared: "They both exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hyde-Bound Don't Tread on Me: the Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

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