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Desperate for space and phone lines, Giuliani and his throng of commissioners and aides move around noon to the police academy, on East 20th Street, where they will remain for the next three days...
...White Christmas" and a couple dozen others run through the mental juke boxes of people who don't care who wrote them or how long ago they were first popular. Like a pretty girl (in another Berlin lyric), his melodies haunt you night and day. They are the 20th century's enduring folk music, and Berlin was the Stephen Foster of his age, and ours...
...years ago, when TIME's editors were choosing "the" song of the 20th century, my suggestion was "Cheek to Cheek" - a dance-and-romance tune composed in an ambitious, 64-bar structure. Berlin pitched it smartly to Astaire's frail but persuasive tenor voice; for example, in the phrase "And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak," the melody zigzags up to a note Astaire can hardly sing. The song's daring swings of rhythm and emotion consecutively express three moods of a lover in pursuit - bliss ("Heaven, I'm in heaven"), jauntiness ("Oh, I love to climb...
...Social conventions change. What seems obvious to one generation will mortify the next. Today, most whites are embarrassed by the condescension toward and grotesque stereotyping of blacks in early 20th century mainstream culture. But Berlin probably did not recognize the hurt he and others inflicted on blacks by the racial characterizations in their songs. A political conservative and life-long Republican, he was a social liberal, as he proved during World War II. When he took his military show "This Is the Army" on the road, his troupe was the only integrated company in uniform. Everyone traveled together...
...KING HEDLEY II August Wilson's brand of big windy social drama is out of vogue right now, but he's still at the top of his game. In this, the eighth of his 20th century cycle, the residents of a ghetto neighborhood in Pittsburgh struggle against the social and economic realities of the Reagan '80s. A great cast, including Brian Stokes Mitchell, right, and Tony Award-winner Viola Davis, luxuriated in Wilson's impassioned language...