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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cuts on the album are devoted to updating traditional music. Although the band plays the medley on side one cleanly, and although the music sounds impressive, it is not on a par with the rest of the album. The transitions between pieces in the medley are not smooth, and the thematic connections are not clear enough to lend the the medley a sense of unity. The medley on side two, however, is a strong, well-planned cut with good transitions throughout. While the drums and electric bass prevent it from merely imitating Irish traditional music, the piece remains true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bromberg's Abandon | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

Long's climb to the top has not been completely smooth. As the son of Depression Populist Huey Long, he attracted close scrutiny. And he was not found wanting. Richard Russell, the late Georgia Senator who served through six Administrations, called him the second smartest Senator he ever knew. The first smartest, Russell said, was his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Master of the Maze | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...course, already taken by more than 750 officers from Texas, Florida and Kansas, consists of six hours of class instruction (usually in a converted saloon near Dallas) and 18 hours of driving on a course with turns known as Serpentine, Lollypop and T-Bone Alley. Turner emphasizes calm, smooth movements and no tire-squealing maneuvers. "Think slow," he tells students. "Make a corner better, and you can catch the guy even if he's going 20 miles an hour faster than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Think Slow | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Newborn babies and all aside, Politicks is a good magazine; it would be nice if it could survive along with the other bi-weekly politics and arts journals like The Nation and The New Republic. Its difficulties should smooth out, and if Morgan can snare some other old friends from the Voice to write--like Jack Newfield, for instance--it can become solid reading about politics that have a focus--at least as much as they can in America--away from Washington. If not, then we'll be left with the lawn sprinkler evaluations, sandwiched in with reviews...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Left Leavings | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

...late afternoon the river was smooth, but wrinkles in the computerized timing system and an unusually high number of protests delayed the releases of final results, race officials said...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Harvard Oarsmen Beat Regatta Rivals | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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