Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the stifling influence of cost/benefit capitalism has tightened its control of the record industry over the past five years and glutted the market with hordes of boring, formulaic music, there are still some creative things going on in rock'n'roll today--and one of those things is Lou Reed's new album, Street Hassle. It is a hope--not revolutionary or even pivotal in its influence on music--but solid and refreshing and still; it's rock'n'roll...
...lasting notoreity or inportance as Sgt. Pepper or even Surrealistic Pillow. But Lou Reed, along with Patti Smith and some other fringe and hard-core members of the new wave constitute a sighing reassurance that there is a future to rock in America; prophecies come true that rock'n'roll is here to stay...
...point is that no one, but no one--with the exception of the netherworld artists of the New Wave--have been able to do anything creative with rock'n'roll without losing that driven, passionate crank that distinguishes rock from jazz, blues and folk...
...party leadership? Not immediately. Commenting on Marchais's speech, L 'Humanité insisted that the address proved that "serious, interesting and positive discussion is unfolding within our party." Marchais himself, when he first heard the rumblings within his ranks, magnanimously announced that "no heads would roll" because of it. That seems a safe bet in his own case, since no one expects any changes in the rigid party leadership any time soon. But if the party continues to learn nothing and forget nothing about the changing shape of France's ever more middle class electorate, it could...
...anyone who witnessed the lacrosse team's 14-10 triumph over Princeton on Saturday afternoon, fast breaks and roll dodges and leading scores were but opening acts for the main attraction. Sure, it was Harvard's ball game, but it was Jamie Egasti...