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Finally it's time for you to drive away from Springsteen's home. He's up for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, and if he doesn't make it in on his first try, they ought to tear the place down. Listening to the rambling, raggedly compelling Tracks makes you realize why you fell in love with his music in the first place. Springsteen found--and still finds--poetry in ordinary working-class life, in guys who work in car washes, guys doing hard time and guys who finished tours of Vietnam. He sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Echoes of Thunder | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Many diehard athletes experience recurring injuries that eventually require medical attention. Over time, excessive wear-and-tear on muscles and joints can aggravate otherwise unnoticeable conditions, often creating new ones in the process...

Author: By Chris Pappas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PLAYING THE SIDELINES | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...They beat us with nightsticks and bullwhipsand threw tear gas," Lewis said...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rep. Lewis Recounts Civil Rights Movement | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

Sorry to point this out. You're probably pausing right about now to wipe a tear from your Armani suit and thinking it's pretty much curtains for the counterculture. Maybe you're thinking that you were but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass, and epochs like the 1960s are rare in human history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Counterculture | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...Woman lies in bed, suffering from cancer. Her life draws to a close amid a haze of painkillers and memories of a man she adored. With main ingredients such as these, Susan Minot's latest novel. Evening, could have collapsed into a shmaltzy mess of tear-jerking reflections on life and love. Minot, however, does more than deftly avoid this route in her lyrical tribute to the self-awareness that "falling in love" can engender. In the end, we do come away struck by the underlying sadness of the tale, not because we realize what "might have been," but because...

Author: By Irene J. Hahn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Life's Twilight | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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