Word: seeger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...score featuring songs by the Blasters and Tom Petty, and some costumes designed by Giorgio Armani, all helping to spin out a hellish story set in the future imperfect. Even sooner, viewers can sample a fine, tough, sexy new movie called Reckless, with tunes by Romeo Void and Bob Seeger; a fake documentary called This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, which chronicles with legitimate hilarity the American tour of the world's loudest and stupidest heavy-metal band; and Footloose, a kind of contemporary rock fable about a young man who comes to a benighted town...
...Harris, a retired auto worker from Linden, N.J., said simply that "we are trying to get a message to the President that people need jobs, and this is the way to do it." Even some of the musical entertainment took digs at the President: Veteran Folk Singer Pete Seeger picked away at a ditty with the lyrics: "This old man, he did four, now we're in El Salvador . . . This old man, he did six, he did better in the flicks . . . This old man, he did eight, he helped Nancy decorate...
August 9--Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthne...
...with big-time pop-music making. The day's performers reflected the cultural complexion of the crowd: young and hip, like Rockers Lin da Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne; tweedy and middleaged, like Folk Singers Peter, Paul and Mary; politically insistent, like Balladeers Joan Baez and Pete Seeger...
...Communist countries, but Communism is in itself a variant, the most successful variant, of fascism. Fascism with a human face." The left "did not have ears" for this truth, she told the sometimes booing and hissing crowd-composed of about 1,300 left-wing activists, among them Singer Pete Seeger and Novelist E.L. Doctorow-because of its haughty reluctance to be associated with its "enemies" on the right, who were considered to be simplistic Red baiters. Said she: "Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Reader's Digest between 1950 and 1970, and someone who read only...