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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robertson has shaken the dust off and made his first solo album. Two Band colleagues show up on two cuts for the sake of old times. There are also hefty contributions from U2, Peter Gabriel and the BoDeans, and stylistic echoes as diverse as Tom Waits and David Byrne. But Robbie Robertson is unmistakably his work. He says it best himself on the last cut, Testimony: "Bear witness, I'm wailing like the wind/ Come bear witness, the half-breed rides again." So step right up and welcome him home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Half-Breed Rides Again | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...time when, as he says, "there's a feeling of a little more substance in the air." The two U2 collaborations on the record (Testimony and the reactor-hot Sweet Fire of Love) were launched on little more than a wing, a prayer, a guitar riff, a tom-tom beat and a horn chart written by Gil Evans (Miles Davis' collaborator on Sketches of Spain). It is not only talent that makes these songs work, it's a finding of common ground between Robertson and the Dublin boys so sudden and intense that the discovery ignites the songs. U2 squires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Half-Breed Rides Again | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...best, Nuts is a picture that has much to say about the corrupting power of possessive love. But as adapted for Streisand by Tom Topor and veteran Screenwriters Darryl Ponicsan and Alvin Sargent, it too often surrenders to the banalities of its genre. For Nuts exemplifies one kind of Hollywood high-mindedness: the "I'm O.K. Because Society Says I'm Not O.K." movie. The protagonist is not insane, merely misunderstood by those who impose rules she refuses to play by. Every time an authority figure declares she is incompetent, her sanity is supposed to be affirmed. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lovelorn, Headstrong | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Junior quarterback Tom Yohe earned the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award, the equivalent of the team's Most Valuable Player. This year, Yohe broke all of Harvard's singleseason passing records...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: And to the Victors Come the Spoils | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

...Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne-Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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