Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview last week, City Councilor Alice K. Wolf said, "The facts of life are that a lot of young people are engaging in sexual activity...we should try to help people understand...
...sheer insidiousness of crack, the newly popular, highly potent form of cocaine that can in short order transform the casual pleasure seeker into an addict. Perhaps it is the perception that drugs have spread into the workplace and the neighborhood, that they have arrived like the wolf at the door, or at least next door...
...court order barring the young hemophiliac from the premises. But all was quiet last week when the 14-year-old walked through the doors of Western High School for the start of eighth-grade classes. "He's going to be a regular student like everyone else," said Principal Charles Wolf. True, Ryan's reinstatement resulted from another court order, and true, AIDS victims around the country still face formidable prejudices. But the calm in Indiana was one of several signs last week that knee-jerk fear of people with AIDS may be subsiding, at least in some parts...
There's already a clamor to climb aboard. Waylon Jennings, who can still hang tough and sing true, recorded an Earle tune called The Devil's Right Hand on his new album, Will the Wolf Survive. At a recent date in a tony Chicago club, an upscale crowd got joyously behind the heavy beat and the Duane Eddy- style guitar rumble of Earle's band, even as they paid respectful attention to such back-against-the-wall Earle lyrics as "I hit the beer joints every Friday night/ Spend a little money lookin' for a fight/ It don't matter...
...nature is grist for its mill. Former Bebop Jazzman Paul Winter, who is now making New Age records, lists his inspirations as he "African mbira (a hand-held instrument played with the fingers or thumbs) as well as the sounds of the humpback whale, eagle and the timber wolf." If much of the music does not actively demand attention in the way that Beethoven or even the Beatles do, it does require some imagination on the part of both composer and listener...