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Since you've trekked all the way into Boston, why not check out perennial 80s favorite Cheap Trick as they kick off their three day Boston stint at the Paradise Rock Club with tunes from their first album? 8 p.m., Paradise Rock Club, 969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
...liberal Democrat in the '60s. During the '80s I was an independent and even voted for several Republicans. But all that is now ended. The way Republicans and their partisan politics have completely destroyed due process and engaged in a McCarthy-like destruction of our President, guilty or not, is deplorable. In this coming election, for the first time in my life, I will vote along party lines rather than for individuals. I'm voting for anyone but a Republican! JOSHUA TOUBER Venice, Calif...
...leave his fans with a sense of deja vu: the twin flugelhorns, the wispy strings, the fuzzy horns, the retro female background singers. Only when Bacharach stretches his orchestrations into more rock-oriented territory does the music suggest outtakes from the schmaltzy Michael MacDonald recordings from the mid-80s. Few of the songs, though, sound so maudlin, and the melodies themselves stay thoroughly grounded in reality; these pop songs may be old-fashioned, but they sound far from melodramatic or artificial. Heartbreak itself, after all, is awfully old-fashioned, but it always feels fresh...
WASHINGTON: When Bill Clinton unveiled that "surplus clock" last week, he gleefully recalled all the bad-mouthing America took from Europe in the '80s for holding back the world economy with high deficits. But the transatlantic sniping has started again -- this time for saving too much. "Running a surplus right now could be inappropriate," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "When the U.S. and world economy is slowing, tax cuts could help stimulate domestic growth and make sure the U.S. is still a good market for Asian and Latin American exports...
...used to be quiet. There weren't a lot of people here," says Frances Jenkins, a housekeeper who lived in Dudley Square during the '70s and '80s...