Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...familiar cliche, of course, that the Third World is trapped between its own traditional cultures and encroaching modernity. Old men driving donkey carts past skyscrapers, turbaned young boys listening to rock 'n' roll songs, etc., etc. During my three weeks in Tunisia, though, I saw how facile that cliche can be, yet how very real it is for the people caught in this clash of cultures. I saw it turned upside down in a place which is literally upside down...
...more enjoyable) summer movie, Prince's Under the Cherry Moon, this one attempts to fit a very modern one-name pop superstar into a traditional, golden-age Hollywood format. And why not? Who else has that old-time charisma? Only the bad boy and material girl of rock 'n' roll. With Prince it worked, mostly, because his blend of Little Richard and Little Egypt spiced the stew. But Madonna seems straitjacketed by her role, and Penn, for once, looks bored. She smiles, he glowers. Neither glows like the incandescent movie stars they can and will...
Meanwhile, French police announced they discovered a cache of more than 88 pounds of explosives, 10 grenades, more than 80 detonators and a roll of detonation cord. The Interior Ministry said the discovery came as a result of public appeals for vigilance against terrorism, but it provided no other details...
...finally be trying to kick its habit, but other countries around the world are just getting hooked. Like blue jeans and rock 'n' roll, America's drug culture has been exported to European and Asian youth. Although statistics are hard to come by, drug use seems to be expanding worldwide, especially in the countries that export drugs...
Paul Simon's rock 'n' roll has always been a little different. Raucous, unreconstructed and soul deep, rock is, first of all, about feeling. Or so it is thought to be. But Simon's songs are also about thinking, about the half- rational process of measuring out passion in small portions, like time- release capsules, detonating long after consumption. They are stately, funny and absurd, with elusive rhythmic changes and melodic surprises that come up fast and take the tune off in a whole new direction...