Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last few years I've spent most--really, I should say all--of my meager earnings on listening to rock 'n roll. So I've got a state-of-the-art stereo system with speakers that give a wall-of-sound image and a vast, eclectic record collection that would put WHRB to shame (I should know, I hear it on my telephone all the time...
...creature on the endangered-species list often goes unnoticed. But last week champagne flowed in Lausanne, Switzerland, and sighs of relief echoed around the world. Reason: delegates to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to place the elephant, earth's largest land mammal, on the roll of animals that stand worrisomely close to the brink of extinction. That decision, supported by 76 nations and a legion of conservation and environmental groups, triggered a worldwide ban on the ivory trade. The hope is that it will bring an end to a decade of slaughter in which poachers...
During the one-and-a-half hour question and answer session, one student asked if U.S. artists are seekinginspiration in exotic music because American rockand roll has become a cliche, pointing to PaulSimon's Graceland and Peter Gabriel's musicfor the Last Temptation of Christ...
...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...
...Jones writes about it and sings it. In Flying Cowboys, her first album since 1984's The Magazine, she sets down a kind of mystical confessional, full of allusive autobiography and reflective nonchalance. It has the breadth of an important book and the emotional impact of great rock 'n' roll...