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There is nothing electronically intricate about The Band's music. It is, in fact. very simple. But through this simplicity-perhaps purity is the better word-The Band achieves a musical breadth seldom heard in rock circles. While the music is simple, it is powerful. There is no dominating force in The Band. The chief concern is the final sound, the end result, not brief flashes of individual brilliance. Tefal excellence is perhaps, the best expression of The Band...
...America that he depicts is a long way removed from the Chamber of Commerce optimism that is often (and mistakenly) assumed to be the sum total of Middle America's taste. Wyeth's America is often locked in a wintry cold, but even in summer the sun seldom shines full strength on the lonely fishermen, hired men and country women who inhabit it. They are stolid, they endure, but they are closer to Hawthorne's withdrawn New Englanders or the overworked pioneers of Willa Cather's Midwest than to the comfortable, free-living suburbanites of today...
...Larry seldom gets angry away from the strip, but when he does it usually involves ??. "The Harvard athletic department couldn't care less if we slipped off the face of the ?arta. Most of the coaches downstairs in the office of the INB rarely come up here to watch a match. And when they do, it is usually because one of their projectors has broken, and they don't know what t???e Larry said...
ECONOMISTS may debate whether or not the U.S. economy is in a recession, but many businessmen know that their own companies or industries are caught in a serious slump-and they are taking steps to cope with it. Seldom has the transition from buoyant optimism to spreading doubt come so abruptly for such a large cross section of manufacturers. As a result, businessmen are paying new attention to costs and gaining added respect for the old-fashioned virtue of thrift. In pursuit of more efficiency, executives are questioning old operating methods, eliminating frills, curtailing the output of unprofitable or barely...
...cast stands in frontal boldness, asserting the beauty of their bodies and the intangible intimacy they're supposed to feel amongst themselves. And it was the group-groping which was so taken for granted that one might gloss over it. It was the tattooed couple (two guys who seldom unlocked their arms, and were reputedly married). And it was interracial love. And it was the total dissolution of societal boundaries that disunite people, and keep them from friendship and hugging and kissing and loving. And it was Hair...