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Until now. At the age of 44, Robertson has shaken the dust off and made his first solo album. Two Band colleagues show up on two cuts for the sake of old times. There are also hefty contributions from U2, Peter Gabriel and the BoDeans, and stylistic echoes as diverse as Tom Waits and David Byrne. But Robbie Robertson is unmistakably his work. He says it best himself on the last cut, Testimony: "Bear witness, I'm wailing like the wind/ Come bear witness, the half-breed rides again." So step right up and welcome him home...
...about 1:30 a.m., German torpedo boats slipped into Lyme Bay and launched their weapons against the convoy. The toll: 749 Americans dead, four times the number that perished on Utah Beach. Most were raw recruits who had never seen the enemy. For the sake of wartime secrecy, news of the tragedy was withheld. The dead were never honored with an official monument...
Foreign leaders, however, attach one enormous condition, and it brings economic arguments full circle. They will not risk overstimulating their economies and inducing a new round of inflation for the sake of enabling America to continue living beyond its means. They will insist on a meaningful slash in the American budget deficit. The fear of inflation is particularly strong in West Germany, which was still raising interest rates shortly before Black Monday, to the intense displeasure of the U.S. German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg last week hinted at what would be required to get Bonn to change course. Said...
Hello Again abuses the talent of its cast with an inexcuseably trite fairy tale of a plot. Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) is a frumpy, suburban housewife who feels somewhat displaced in the glitzy Manhattan cocktail set that she mingles with for the sake of her ambitious husband (Corbin Bernsen). "Isn't this party just suhblime!" coos Lucy's best friend and society beauty, Kim (Sela Ward). But nervous Lucy commits one social faux pas after another, culminating in a grand exit down the balustrade where she exposes more than just her sheepish grin...
...Greg made an incredible effort to convert me,but for his own sake, not mine. He did it to gethimself to heaven, and once it became clear that Iwasn't going to buy it he never called me again."The Boston Garden, site of The Church'sSunday meetings...