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Like Dylan, Thompson has the rarely found depth that allows him to appeal to your sympathy one minute and kick you in the balls the next. No song on this new disk exemplifies this better than the first one, "When The Spell Is Broken." The minor chords issuing from Thompson's twangy, vibrettoed guitar rumble and lament like a Scottish funural dirge, and his solo swoops gracefully and reverently around them. The words, though, are pure vitriol, worthy of an especially pissed-off Dylan or a younger Graham Parker. The extremity of its despair makes this song frightening, with appropriately...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: To Be The Very Best | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

Lynley Ogilvie broke Harvard's dry spell, beating the MIT goalie to the corner. But MIT gained an easy tally when the Crimson netminder, Johnson, illegally brought the ball back into the net with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/24/1985 | See Source »

...short, Teeters walks the tightrope between the egalitarian ideal and the reality of status. Merrymount society allows him to play the game, though it does not spell out the regulations. Rule 1 is that friendliness and even sexual intimacy do not automatically confer acceptance. Rule 2 is that the home team gets to suspend Rule 1 whenever it wants to flaunt its self- assurance. Cynthia Pickles, local ice princess and founder of Overview ("a journal of opinion for all sides"), coolly sleeps with Teeters, accepts his nuptial propositions but marries smooth, rich Jerry Chirouble. Pickles' underclass equivalent is Toby Snapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Gatsby in Connecticut the Prick of Noon | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...high population density of Cambridge, coupled with the massive volume of hazardous materials which currently travel through the city, a major accident could spell disaster," the bill's co-sponsor, Sen. Michael LoPresti Jr. (D-Boston), stated in testimony before the Public Safety Committee, which is considering the bill...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Local Legislators Propose Prohibition Of Hazardous Cargo Traffic in City | 4/17/1985 | See Source »

Broderick does a good job ogling Pfeitter "the face of love itself"), but like a good champion in training suppresson his boyish fantasies out of respect for Navarre. After some is needed for more important things, like breaking the evil spell that turns Navarre into a wolf each night and Isabeau into a falcon each day. Seemingly the only mortal lead to retain his human form for more than two hours at a stretch, Phillippe becomes a go-between for the star-crossed lovers, embellishing their tender messages with fanciful tidbits from his own overripe romantic imagination. The lovers' tragic...

Author: By Cristna V. Colletta, | Title: Noble Nerd | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

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