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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that Patti Smith has much cleavage, but think on it. Patti Smith is something of a genius. Five years ago she took tired ole rock muzak and pumped out "Gloria," "Horses," "Set Me Free," a re-done "My Generation," "Break It Up," "Piss Factory," a re-done "Hey Joe," "Redondo Beach," and a host of refurbished Lou Reed songs. She took a pickaxe and buried it deep into the "new apathy," re-defined the ME generation...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

Along with Lou Reed and Blondie and eventually The Sex Pistols and Elvis Costello--plus a whole new wave of bands from The Ramones to The Clash--Patti Smith brought home a new message, and it had nothing to do with war or the draft...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...Becaus0e the Night" marked the end of Patti Punk, a performer whose appeal was strong but limited. It marked the end of her raw scream-and-simmer tactics at the microphone too, because smooth, technosyncratic, polished albums mean similar concerts. The days when you could see Patti Smith wail out with Lenny Kaye at The Rat or The Bottom Line are gone. She was known to spit at her audiences, to jump on tables and kick drinks into the abyss. Patti Smith is now banned from The Bottom Line...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...flower painted on her cheek, she is a smiler, coming right up to me and asking if she can illustrate my entire body. She is a body illustrator. Her name is Cretin Hop. At home she gives me cleavage, shows me a giant watercolor illustration of Patti Smith--slightly smudged by sweat--marked painstakingly beneath the knap of a breast...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

Muzorewa's party won 67% of the popular vote and 51 of the 72 seats reserved for blacks in the new 100-member Parliament. On many issues the bish op will have the support of the Rhodesian Front, the party of outgoing Prime Minister Ian Smith, which won all of the 28 seats reserved for whites. Both parties recognize the need for unity against the guer rillas of the Patriotic Front. Says a white restaurant owner in Salisbury, expressing a hope shared by many of Rhodesia's 212,000 remaining "Europeans" "The bishop is a weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Bishop's Tough Challenge | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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