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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people praised Black and Blue when it came out in 1976, and the funk-disco song "Hot Stuff" from that Ip has not improved with age. Along with "Shattered," which opens up the first side, and "Dance, Pt. 2." "Hot Stuff" does however provide a clear picture of the New York the Rolling Stones know. It is a town of confusion and fast, undirected movement, which can suck you in for a lifetime if you don't resist its pull...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: It's Only Rock and Roll | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

...tour of the United States this summer, the Stones have dumped Sucking in the Seventies into the suburban record shop bins and are waiting for the virtually guaranteed profits. They really don't lose much stature in the process because everyone who cares knows they stopped producing their best stuff sometime during the reign of Richard Nixon. This is the Stones hanging on, older and less tough, but still worth listening to if you once did Charlie Watts on you plastic pencil case...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: It's Only Rock and Roll | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

...cynical, but his anger signaled hope; Trust is faith in nothing. This is some of his most "listenable" music, meaning that you can play it at parties without apologizing, you can listen to it in snatches. The choruses in particular tend to be more predictable than usual; the old stuff hurtled more, while Elvis kinda drifts up and down the scales here, which is okay since his voice gets more resonant, textured, and personable with each album. He could never be Tony Bennett, just as Woody Allen can't be Cary Grant, but both seem to be trying in their...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...announced: "We'll be right back after this word from General Fools." At a conference in Berlin in 1954, France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was hailed as "that fine little French tiger, Georges Bidet," thus belittling the tiger by the tail. When we laugh at such stuff, it is the harsh and bitter laugh, the laugh at the disclosure of inner condemning truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oops! How's That Again? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

Cross knows her stuff. But she sermonizes little, and the business of mystery-solving remains paramount throughout the proceedings...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Alfred? Bate? Heimert? Levin? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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