DAVE D'ALESSANDRO, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-24-1993 STARKS REAFFIRMS HARD-NOSED STYLE By DAVE D'ALESSANDRO, Staff Writer Date: 11-24-1993, Wednesday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early ...

Byline: LINDSAY KIRKLAND VILLAGERS throughout the country are developing tough business skills and commercial enterprise to save their local shops. Peter Jones, director of the Village Retail Services Association, a charity that helps rural communities to keep their shops, says: 'Almost...

[Hard Nose the Highway] is an object lesson in Giving the People What They Deserve any way you look at it. If you think they deserve a ration of anguish to keep their molars bright, you can find it here if you read between the ferns. If you dream at night of infinite Gitcheegumee lapping panaceas to salve us all through the Seventies, Hard Nose will soft-on in seconds flat. If, even, you kinda feel that this prevalent public (and critical, yup yup) attitude of blanket acquiescence for the existential excret...

Hard Nose the Highway is psychologically complex, musically somewhat uneven and lyrically excellent. Its surface pleasures are a little less than those of St. Dominic's Preview and a great deal less than those of Tupelo Honey, while its lyric depths are richer and more accessible than those of either predecessor. The major theme of Hard Nose is nostalgia, briefly but firmly counter-pointed by disillusion. The latter sentiment Van spews out in the album's one ugly, self-indulgent song, "...