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...most significant thing about Marsalis' career is not his personal success. It is the fact that, largely under his influence, a jazz renaissance is flowering on what was once barren soil. Straight-ahead jazz music almost died in the 1970s as record companies embraced the electronically enhanced jazz-pop amalgam known as fusion. Now a whole generation of prodigiously talented young musicians is going back to the roots, using acoustic instruments, playing recognizable tunes and studying the styles of earlier jazzmen, from King Oliver and Louis Armstrong to Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. Moreover, with major record labels...
...buzz-cut skinheads and helmeted police circled each other warily in the halls of Oregon's Multnomah County courthouse last week. Close by, in a marble-pillared courtroom hidden behind security gates, two men stood before a civil court judge and began a legal duel that involved an unusual amalgam of crimes and punishments: charges of murder and racism, to be measured by the strictures of tort liability. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," intoned civil rights crusader Morris Dees, "we're going to ask you to return a verdict so big that it will put Tom Metzger...
...outline, ABC's heralded new series Twin Peaks sounds like an amalgam of familiar TV genres. A touch of true-crime docudrama, a dash of Columbo, a jot of Knots Landing. But in the darkly idiosyncratic world of director David Lynch, terms like murder mystery and soap opera don't begin to tell the tale. Twin Peaks, which debuts Sunday as a two-hour movie, is like nothing you've seen in prime time -- or on God's earth. It may be the most hauntingly original work ever done for American...
With Moscow and Washington more likely these days to exchange kisses than atomic missiles, it may not seem the most opportune time to declare that nuclear annihilation is just around the corner. But followers of the Church % Universal and Triumphant, a motley New Age amalgam of Christianity and Eastern religion, are convinced that the end is near -- so near that they were heading by the thousands last week for a warren of bomb shelters deep in the hills of Montana...
...potential for violence, and even for the disintegration of the Soviet order, is enormous. The U.S.S.R. is a vast amalgam of nationalities that have always been restive under the imperial Soviet system. To mix the politics of openness and the economics of scarcity is a messy and dangerous experiment...