Word: mays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...digging it out of the corners. The attack was as static as it was predictable: players stuck to their assigned roles instead of improvising. Under Quinn's system the forwards bring the puck up the ice, crisscrossing like the Soviets as they come, and defensemen, spotting an opportunity, may join in the attack...
...those that are in some way rock related. There are almost three dozen contributors, most of them card-carrying critics who pack strong opinions. The book is organized by artist. Styles are surveyed, ratings apportioned (from "Worthless" to "Indispensable"), careers evaluated and, in a some cases, trashed. There may not be a great many surprises here. The good guys (Springsteen, Dylan, the Who) win; the bad guys (from Black Sabbath and the Tubes to Mac Davis and Kenny Rogers) are pumped full of holes. The contributors may be quick to shoot from the hip, but they score a fair share...
Intended as a carry-all consumer consultancy, the Guide may find its greatest value by tempting readers into playing something that has not been in the Top 100 for a long time, or that was never there at all, whether it is a collection by Solomon Burke or some blues by Jimmy Reed. The evaluations can be infuriatingly arbitrary: albums by a group of four-chord gobblers like Mahogany Rush are rated as high as some by Van Morrison and Neil Young. The fault, however, is also part of the point. Rock reviewing is high-temperature writing...
...direction of José Quintero and something memorable occurs. The affinity of feeling between the creator and the re-creators actually propels the drama into a new dimension of the spirit. That happened with the trio's revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, a flawed play that may never seem so moving again...
...garden at tea time, when, as we can guess from Chekhov and Turgenev, they were surely spellbinding talkers. The trouble with such snapshots from a nation's family album is that they must be viewed with a head full of literary and historical associations, while fiction may draw even the most unknowing into its universe...