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...There is also a certain amount of rock and roll," he said, citing several poems which are set to music. "Music and poetry have gone together since Homer and Sappho," said Ginsberg, who sang last year at Sander's Theatre and also sang on the Clash's rock album "Combat Rock...
Katie Toner (18:35.1) and Toby Warden (18:41.3) led all women with 21st and 22nd place finishes, respectively. The freshmen trio of Lise Vansen (19:18.5), Michelle Sang (19:26.3), and Tina Lount (19:27.5) followed with 45th, 49th, and 50th place finishes, respectively...
...been, for ten years now, a cool hand at bringing up all manner of crawly things from just below the surface. Byrne and the Heads made music that examined some of the oddest, spookiest manifestations of modern emotional life, sang songs that turned grim tidings into deadpan jokes and disaffection into disarming social parables. Byrne's lyrics played four-wall handball with anomie and, floating all around the band's cunning and enterprising rhythms, moved the Heads past punk and over the crest of rock's new wave into a forefront they had sharpened up for themselves...
...young avant-garde art world, and brought that same go-for-it attitude to their music. Playing at Manhattan's CBGB, the proto-punk club on the Bowery, the Heads dressed in strictly Ivy spiff, like floorwalkers from Brooks Brothers. Byrne, eyes bulging, long neck turning like a periscope, sang like a carny geek who could not digest his chicken. Then there were the songs. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est/ Run, run, run, run away," Byrne would blurt, contriving to sound simultaneously like the murderer and his victim. Perfect new-wave icons, then: psychotic preppies. The pure...
...beleaguered city of Houston, jinxed in oil and space and now ninthinning rallies, showed particular grace and unusual humor in defeat. A courageous child "soloist" in a pinafore came out on the infield and sang the national anthem before the last game, and the morning after the Chronicle reported, "Around 2 p.m., little Amber Pennington, seven years old, fought her way through The Star-Spangled Banner before the start of the sixth game of the National League Championship Series. Before the game was over, Amber joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts and went to her senior prom. She was married...