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...Miles Davis and Charles Lloyd put him at ground zero of the jazz-rock fusion movement. Then, in the 1970s, he unplugged his keyboards and started giving the totally improvised, all-acoustic solo concerts that established him as the most individual (and successful) jazz pianist of his generation. The '80s saw him recording arrestingly fresh versions of pop ballads with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette--as well as Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier on piano and harpsichord...
...fellow been bedeviled by the array of obstacles Lin must confront. Not only is he scrupulously moral and thus vulnerable to all the guilty pangs of wayward husbandhood, but Lin's travails occur in a place--Communist China--and during a time--the early 1960s to the early '80s--when literally all occasions conspire against the quest for such a trivial thing as personal happiness...
Hitchcock's career began in the late '70s with the Soft Boys, who broke up in 1980. He spent the '80s and early '90s with the Egyptians, steadily building a huge underground of connisseur-grade fans who came to shows as much for his surreal, almost Dadaist rants between songs as for the music. In May of 1996 he played a 30th anniversary remake of Bob Dylan's seminal Royal Albert Hall concert in a pub near the famed original venue, and later in the year he released a solo album dubbed Moss Elixir. In 1998, longtime fan Johnathan Demme...
...history of fashion began in Paris and ended in the United States, though by the time the Americans had entered the scene, the party was mostly over. The "clothes horses" of the '80s "were known to blow $100,000 or more on a couture wardrobe on a single Paris trip." These trans-Atlantic pirates, in the era of fashion news programs like CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch" became the final guard of a dying industry, and Agins argues that we (you, me and her) looked up to them until our trust was broken. Haute Couture had never resembled...
...smoking? The intoxicating freedom? The feeling of invincibility? The looming prospect of lung cancer? It may be none of the above, but according to a study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, something is turning '90s college-age adults into smokers at a higher rate than their '80s counterparts. Despite success in some population groups, adult smoking rates in the 1990s have remained essentially static, thanks to large numbers of 18-to-24-year-olds who are picking up the habit. Between 1965 and 1990, the percentage of Americans who smoked plummeted from 44 percent to 24.7 percent...