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...pair were going for spontaneity, and the effort paid off. Despite the weight of their history--bands like Pearl Jam have borrowed from them, movies like This Is Spinal Tap have parodied them--their Walking into Clarksdale is a relatively loose-limbed, unencumbered affair. There are no sprawling Stairway to Heaven-type pieces here, only songs that are for the most part relatively modest and direct. This isn't hard rock, but it is solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stairway To Middle Age | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...that, I told the patient secretary at the Public Works Department, was why I had called. I wanted them to build a stairway into the hillside that would turn a questionable shortcut into a user-friendly thoroughfare, and I was wondering who had control over that sort of decision. She told me that all the bridges in the state were owned by the Massachusetts Highway Department, especially one on the Alewife Brook Parkway, which moonlights as State Route...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Technicolor Dreams and Hillside Blues | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

Major Henry Higginson must be lonely. One of the all-time best friends of undergraduates is stuck presiding over the central stairway of the Barker Center, watching students dash in and out while faculty members toil in quiet offices. The man who chose central heating over lavish furnishings to create a common space that would make all undergrads feel comfortable has been forced to watch his club be converted into an office building for professors...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Parting Shot | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...renovations to these floors will includethe building of a new stairway to the second floorto allow for easier access to the reference deskwhich will be relocated from the first floor tothe second floor...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Countway to Revamp Facilities, Technology In $21 Million Project | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

...Gabriel (Dan Hedaya) has sent them back to Earth to bring these crazy kids together. If these dysfunctionals can be made to function in harmony, there is hope, he thinks, for a world riven by romantic discord. Well, why not? A little dollop of Here Comes Mr. Jordan or Stairway to Heaven never hurt anyone--except that these seraphs have a mean streak unknown to their more beamish movie predecessors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IN A WAY, EXTRAORDINARY | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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