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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EXPECTING. Jerry Hall, 27, towering Texan supermodel, and Mick Jagger, 40, strutting, mugging lead singer of the world's most enduring rock-'n'-roll band, the Rolling Stones; their first child; in February. Jagger, who has two daughters, Karis, 12, by American Singer Marsha Hunt, and Jade, 11, by his ex-wife Bianca Jagger, does not intend to marry Hall. Said the legendary "street-fightin' man" last week: "I think stability, comfort and marriage are very well for other people. But in this business I don't think you can have that and still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 17, 1983 | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...Isaac Bashevis Singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brothers and Masters | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...BROTHERS SINGER by Clive Sinclair

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brothers and Masters | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...most of this century, Isaac Bashevis Singer has spoken for a great and ancient minority: demons. In his fiction, they install themselves in mirrors to afflict women with vanity, render bridegrooms impotent on wedding nights, knock over Sabbath candles, spill poor men's dinners. "The demons," he says, "represent to me, in a sense, the ways of the world. Instead of saying this is the way things happen, I will say this is the way demons behave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brothers and Masters | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

Thus it was that the group's chief lyricist, John Lennon, began tuning in on U.S. Folk Singer Bob Dylan (The Times They Are A-Changin'); it wasn't Dylan's sullen anger about life that Lennon found appealing so much as the striving to "tell it like it is." Gradually, the Beatles' work began to tell it too. Their 1965 song, Nowhere Man ("Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to") asked: "Isn't he a bit like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC 1967: The Messengers: The Beatles | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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