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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obtaining a random sample; he is interested only in seeing if a similar underlying pattern exists at all. Like Jean Piaget studying the thoughts and feelings of his own children as appropriate examples of all children, Levinson holds with the theory that men are made of the same basic stuff. If this is so his findings are valid for a larger and wider group than the northeastern, middle-aged men of 1970s America. Hobbes said it first...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: It's Just This Crazy Phase I'm Going Through | 5/17/1978 | See Source »

...after hearing the stylus grind through the heart-beat strains of Street Hassle yet another time, it is clear that the future of rock is here. Lou Reed, Patti Smith, and even Willie Loco and Blondie have proven to be ear-catchers out of the stacks, the kind of stuff that turns your heart nicely the first time you hear it, so you stop and think about what you just heard and place the stylus back a bit so you can hear it again. Street Hassle is more than just a collection of songs. The first side is a fluent...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Up From the Streets | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Born in Los Angeles, raised in Westwood right next to the U.C.L.A. campus, Karla spent her early years "being into clothes and stuff." At 16, however, she started lining up on Mondays outside the Troubadour in L.A. to audition material for hoot night and catch early performances by James Taylor and Jackson Browne. "The music scene was first attractive for social life," Bonoff recalls now. "I was bored with the other kids in high school and be coming kind of a hippie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Into the Light | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...Edwards (a mainstay of the Ronstadt band), to write her English papers, then dropped out. The pair formed a group called Bryndle with Wendy Waldman and Andrew Gold, cut one unreleased album and ended up playing for rent money in a bar near the airport. "We did Top 40 stuff like Jumpin ' Jack Flash and I Want to Take You Higher, " she says, adding: "At least my piano playing got stronger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Into the Light | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...rigors of road life. "All this," she comments, "was a lot more fun before it became a career." In Miami, hotel maids made off with her jewelry, and Bonoff, in unusual dudgeon, sought reprisal in classic rock-'n'-roll style: trashing the hotel room. "I started throwing stuff all around," she recalls, "but nothing broke. It was all made of plastic. I just gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Into the Light | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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