Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...step to the right by mulct of the 18-24 age group, of course, has not suffered from a dearth of scrutiny by the national media, and by the Reagan campaign, which has attempted to identify itself with such working class pop idols as Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp...
...roll politics of the 1980 campaign, where musicians like the Gregg Allman Band, Linda Ronstadt, and Willie Nelson lent their public image for limited political exploitation? This year Ronald Reagan has been the most effective practitioner of this ruse, craftily manipulating the names and photos of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and others for his own re-election...
...pursuing a rather whimsical rediscovery of its home-grown past: flimsy roadside commercial buildings are regarded as significant folk design, for instance, and turn-of-the-century housing styles are now being absorbed into the postmodernist aesthetic. When Conservative Columnist George Will calls Rock-'n'-Roller Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.) an exemplar of bedrock American values, as he did in a column last week, who will deny that the country has become infatuated with itself...
...Eddie and the Cruisers and Plan 9 from Outer Space mixed and mismatched as if by a mad scientist in his Late Show lab. And its Japanese-American hero? He is only the avatar of Han Solo, A. J. Foyt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christiaan Barnard, Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen. A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon...
...biggest stars in Latin American music, a composer who can combine bold lyrics, intricate narratives and bright, salsa-inflected melodies with the fine flair of the best singer-songwriters. Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Jackson Browne come first to mind, and if that is heavy, heady company, then all right, just keep the jostling to a minimum and make a little room...