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...Lying Woman and the rest, while remaining very much their idiosyncratic selves, easily form the newest version of a traditional small town. They may congregate in malls instead of town halls, but by indulging one another's peculiarities, they create a sense of community. Why shouldn't the national anthem of Virgil be Wild Wild Life? And why shouldn't the alien Narrator stop by to celebrate everybody's specialness...
...spectacular sequence, a C3PO-style robot is reconstituted into a rock band -- the leg becomes a guitar, the torso a drum set -- and Jackson kicks into high gear with his We Are Here to Change the World, an up-tempo anthem. Laser beams shoot into the theater; orange light splashes off the rear wall. It is quite a workout. Or, as Producer Lemorande notes, "it's a very dense 17 minutes. It's like desserts. They're so small because they're so rich...
...those heels, the '80s women onstage do strut and stomp. Jasmine Guy, a Diana Ross with funk, does proud by the Tina Turner anthem River Deep -- Mountain High. Laura Theodore works her heft, raunch and four-octave range on a rendition of Ball and Chain that could raise the dead, including Janis Joplin. And to hear Gina Taylor attack Aretha's Do Right Woman -- Do Right Man (four minutes of riffs that ascend into the ionosphere of emotional pride and pain) is to feel a standing ovation from the hairs on the back of your neck. "We're not trying...
...World War II, the victorious Allies banned Germany's national anthem, Deutschland, Deutschland uber Alles (Germany Above All) as too nationalistic. In 1952 West Germany revived the last of the anthem's three stanzas, which extols "unity and justice and freedom...
...country for the raspy-voiced troubadour's True Confessions show. By the time the tour ended last week, an estimated 1 million people had heard him and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers perform nearly a quarter-century of Dylan's songs, from the vintage Masters of War through the rock anthem Like a Rolling Stone. Now fans will have to be content with his new album, Knocked Out Loaded, in which the freewheeling bluesand gospel-flavored numbers evoke the rowdy, roadhouse Dylan of a decade ago. The opening verse of one song sums up a career of confounded expectations...