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...Vanity Fair, James Wolcott wrote an almost scholarly piece on the chroniclers of the young and wasted, pronouncing them "too numb to feel, to cool to care...Current fiction is festooned with their razor cuts and insignia. Listen closely and the lite-FM melodies of Ann Beattie snarl into a more hostile noise...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: The Bennington-Knopf Connection | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Philadelphia, where the words were debated and written, will of course put on the biggest bash. Preparations got off to a slow and shaky start, and only in the past few months has the administrative snarl been untangled. But local officials were justly proud of the Memorial Day weekend celebrations, attended by Vice President Bush. "Everything went without a hitch," says Sam Rogers, a spokesman for We the People 200, which is managing events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIVING There's a Big Party On! | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...stops literally on the sidewalk between the Science Center and Memorial Hall. When the buses pull out of this "depot," they must cross two lanes of traffic, and the resulting traffic snarl is far worse than it ever was at the original stop. Who ever said evolution was not progress...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Turning 30 | 5/27/1987 | See Source »

Still, the Huxtons retain enough force to resemble the early Who, with drummer Arch Law and bassist Matthew Eddy's rumbling rhythm section and lead singer Rob Craw's milk-curdling snarl. Paris suggests that the Huxtons must be a killer live band. The credit for the successes of Paris--and the blame for its failures--must rest on the shoulders of producer Ian "Mack" McKenzie, who committed that live sound to vinyl. For most of the songs, the production is too antiseptic, too well-scrubbed for the type of rough, crude music the Huxtons play. Occasionally, though, McKenzie...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Corporate And Ugly Rock | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Leading the forces of chaos were "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." Wallace became the Spartacus of an American class revolt against the elite and the chic and the powerful. He developed a fine dismissive snarl. "Send them a message," he said, in that thick, dark voice. Half an inch beneath the surface of his words there ran an undercurrent of menace. There was a backwoods defiance in the fire that lit George Wallace up. There was also something, more than something, of the opportunist and the demagogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight of the Firebrand | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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