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Chris Difford and Glenn Tillbrook join forces on the songwriting, as in days of yore. Although the group had waited until 1983 to break up, it effectively lost its bearings after Argybargy in 1980, when keyboard wizard Julien "Jools" Holland decided to pack...
...submarine standards of yore, life aboard the Jackson borders on easy duty. The $2 billion Tridents contain the first flush toilets in an underwater craft, and the first stairs. The air is kept at a constant 72 degrees and circulates rapidly enough to make smoking permissible. Instead of being assigned to "hot racks," or beds that rotate among off-duty personnel, each crew member has his own bunk, equipped with stereo headphones. Food is copious, though overindulgence is rarely a problem. As one crew member explained, "We have to remember that hatches out of this place are only 24 inches...
...Roberta's world, escaped to Susan's funk scene in lower Manhattan, and lived not just to tell both tales but to process them coolly and ironically. There is not a desperate frame in Desperately Seeking Susan--no anger, no false sentiment, no patronizing. Like the screwball comedies of yore, it places entirely probable people in a highly improbable situation and requires that they consult their own sorely tested inner logic to find...
...Classics' rotating lineup allows, you might see Ben Danielson late of the varsity, who led the club yesterday with 18 points. You might see Felipe Farley, who in days of yore drew more fanstical cheering even than Duncan...
...answer, skillfully shuttled through the narrative of his own journey, is that the adventurers of yore were misfits. The squaring of these pegs, he suggests, began in school with tales of bold Westerners challenging sinister enchanters in the East. The heroes of antiquity, the knights-errant and the pathfinders of empire, symbolized virtues that quickened young hearts. But mercantile Britain offered few opportunities for a romantic. "Where was the use of valor and a knowledge of Xenophon and all the rest of the accoutrements?" Glazebrook inquires. "He had put on knight's armor to play croquet...