Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bruce Springsteen music was blaring over the public address system and a man kept interrupting the tunes to make announcements in English, French, and Spanish...
What else can a year of service do for you? It can make you less ignorant. These days, Ivy Leaguers think that being a Springsteen fan means you are "in touch" with America. Well, there's a lot more to being "in touch" than playing records, and only the few of us that led unusual childhoods can say they truly know America. Growing up in suburbia, I only know about upper-middle class, mostly white Americans. When urban riots or farm failures are mentioned to me, my first and only image comes from the television set. A lot of this...
They looked like kids on a high school field trip, clad in Levi's and Springsteen sweatshirts, lining up by the hundreds at the entrance to a tepee. These students, though, were Indians, and the healing ritual to which they were invited was solemnly dedicated to saving their lives...
...ever get tired of listening to your Bruce Springsteen records, Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library has something a little different for you: tapes of 81 World War II-era phonograph records advertising Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound...
...bleach-brained "Freeway of Love," explores adolescent sexuality with all the subtlety of a rubber hygiene implement. And it hardly requires a degree from the Motor City School of Imagery to figure out what Franklin means when she refers to her "pink Cadillac": the phrase does for Springsteen's infamous auto what Sheena's "sugar walls" did for the dextrose concession...