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This is kind of a quiet weekend for rock music in Beantown and environs. But if you really need your dose of spine-crunching bass and screaming, indecipherable lyrics, you'd do well to catch the Ramones at the Paradise (967 Comm Ave, Boston), Friday through Sunday at 9. New wave and all that, y'know? Actually, the Ramones, authors of that disgusting hit single "Rockaway Beach," are the kind of group that gives some of the more serious New Wave artists a bad name. Avoid, unless you want to see teenagers no more talented than...
...Guttersen, 52, an ebullient, bigboned retired Air Force colonel, remembers the day he "broke" as if it were yesterday. He had already watched his hands turn black "like German sausage" from tourniquet-tight binding; then ropes around his elbows were tightened until his shoulder blades slowly jammed into his spine. "At that moment," he remembers, "I would have thrown my kids into a fire to make it stop." Guttersen was on his knees and felt "psychically dirty, like I'd been swimming in a cesspool" and feared he might give up secrets about clandestine intelligence operations. He decided...
...killing of informers. First, there were strange accidents: a log would roll off a pile and cast a stoolie into the river. Then came apparent suicides. Finally, teams of masked men entered the barracks to stab informers with primitive knives. "This was a new period, a heady and spine-tingling period," Solzhenitsyn recalls. "Retribution was at hand-not in the next world, not before the court of history, but retribution live and palpable, raising a knife over you in the light of dawn. It was like a fairy tale: the ground is soft and warm under the feet of honest...
...four years later, 1972, when his message was perhaps most powerful, that he was tracked down and shot by the deluded Arthur Bremer while delivering a campaign speech in a Maryland parking lot. One of the bullets lodged near his spine, and he was paralyzed from the waist down. He had won Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina and went on to win in the Maryland and Michigan primaries, but his drive for the nomination was halted. So was his career. He tried yet again in 1976, with male nurses carrying him in his wheelchair, but the old enthusiasm had faded...
...that's why you'll be shocked the first time you hear Street Hassle. It's the kind of album where you hear an outrageous line or a spine-tingling chord change and you've just got to hear it again...