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...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, who directed "The Silence of the Lambs" and the Talking Heads' famed concert film "Stop Making Sense," filmed...

Author: By Taylor R. Terry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hithcock Ages Gracefully | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

Last night, the city's star progressive, Katherine Triantafillou, was battling for the final spot on the council late last night with David P. Maher, a member of the school committee, and Bob Goodwin, a local parent. (Because of the city's proportional representation voting system, it is difficult to predict winners from preliminary results...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder and Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Slow Shift to Center Continues; Healy May Be on Way Out | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...Rocha has a lofty goal as a lyricist: "I try to write songs that engage people in a critical dialogue about fighting for and among dispossessed peoples around the world." Still, even Bob Marley wrote ballads. Could De la Rocha ever see himself writing a love song? "Every revolutionary act is an act of love," he says. "[So] every song I've ever written has been a love song." From that perspective, The Battle of Los Angeles, with its scathing guitars and whiplash lyrics, is the most romantic CD of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Revolutionary Rock | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...been busy...he didn't show." That offends me. I am Hindu, and faith is deeply rooted in me. Though this was not a fairy-tale ending or a religious experience for Hughes, someone holds this life that we all cherish. You may call him Christ, Allah, Vishnu or Bob, for that matter, but Hughes shouldn't think he was saved because of an astute Aborigine or some glitch in chaos theory. It is normal to fear death, but to mock others' faith when one's life has been spared is not only confusing, it's disgraceful. ADITYA SURENDRAN Edison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...often does around this time, Bob Martin, 47, is standing on his head. Martin has just finished another frenzied day as a patent attorney at Hewlett-Packard's Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters, but instead of plunging into rush-hour traffic, he has descended one flight of stairs to the company's yoga studio. Soft music flutes through the room as half a dozen practitioners, high heels and neckties stowed in nearby lockers, bend and breathe to their instructor's directions. "It's wonderful," Martin says, rolling back to his feet. "I come down here and I let everything that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Healthy Profits | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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