Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson's legs carried them to five sweet victories in the running events against the sluggish Eagles, erasing the better memories of a squad that only broke the wire twice against the fast Cadets in its opening meet. Amy Simon set the pace for the harriers' winning the 1500-meter after a 4:37.4 long one-man show. Next, Patterson raced 55 meters over the hurdles in a winning 8.5 seconds...
...also neatly marks an unexpected passage: yesterday's eminences energetically navigating their own channels of continuity. The past few weeks have seen major new releases not only by Dylan, but by Paul McCartney, elfin as ever; the Rolling Stones, who are still boogying on brimstone; and Paul Simon, still the musical poet of spaces between people where irresolution can kill passion with a shrug. These records are of varying quality, but all share a surprising point of unity. Yesterday is not just a memory, Dylan to the contrary. Rock's recent past continues to help shape its tomorrows...
Like 1981's Tattoo You, it confirms that the Stones, in hearty middle age as a band, are on a fresh roll. "Negotiations and love songs," Paul Simon observes, "are often mistaken for one and the same...
Anyone capable of such a misperception might also pardonably take Simon for the best musical litigator in the business. Hearts and Bones (Warner Bros.), an album of old and lost love, shattered dreams and delicate possibilities, is rueful, mature, self-mocking and hauntingly melodic in a way that is supposed to get rock in trouble: too far from the street, too close to the stage...
...Simon, who after all has built bridges over troubled waters, is masterly enough to span that gap. Any record that encompasses doo-wop, Philip Glass and the fragile orchestrations of the French film composer Georges Delerue is bold by any standard. Anyone who writes lyrics that sound like the poet Ted Hughes on sabbatical in the Brill Building rates a very close listen indeed. Simon's musical agility and lyrical literacy may seem suspect to an audience that wants its rock rougher. He irrefutably proves that hard edges run a poor second to deep thought. Hearts and Bones explores...