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Throughout their LP The Days of Wine and Roses (Ruby Records) the band has flashes of brilliance, producing snatches of driving guitar play. But repeatedly, experimental aspirations sabotage singer Steve Wynn's songwriting. On "When You Smile" both the lyric continuity and the rhythm are broken by an instrumental intrusion. Even on the closing title cut the finest on the album--the bond puts its propulsive playing on hold white it goes pioneering...
...middle of the song, Wynn began baying, Johnny-Rotten-style. Worse, guitar playing game was to synthesization. The band became an act; the rising excitement waned, and the crowd simply gave up and looked on. Later, the group started many other of its pieces well--particularly "The Days of Wine and Roses"--but could never finish one strongly, without breaking off Such laxness stretched the finale to fifteen minutes, brought the average song's length to 8-9 minutes and finally started to drive the fans away...
Despite their flaws The Dream Syndicate shouldn't be dismissed. Some of the album is terrific and some an error, rather than all being essentially mediocre. Even the concert didn't preclude a future performance of quality. Wynn's songwriting has improved and Down There (as well as parts of the show) demonstrated the group's talent for matching riff to lyric. With maturity they ought to gain control over the new density of sound and their attention to instrumentation. Then they should be unstoppable...
...assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. Rome Correspondent Barry Kalb has followed the scenarios that have speculated on various countries' possible roles in the affair. In Washington, Correspondent Ross H. Munro canvassed the intelligence community and pored over the Soviet press. Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn went to Turkey to assess "the amazing Bulgarian involvement in arms and drugs, and Bulgarian activities aimed at destabilizing Turkey." Eastern Europe Bureau Chief Richard Hornik traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria's capital, and gained a different perspective. "The country has been in the news because of an assassination plot," Hornik says...
...marginally justifiable." Instead, they declared that deterrence must only be "a step on the way toward progressive disarmament," and could not be used to justify the continued arms race. "We have pretty well accepted the Holy Father's view of the deterrent role," Bernardin told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Rome last week. "But we are going forward in applying these principles to very concrete situations...