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Fans of Poet Robert W. Service know that despite the title, The Cremation of Sam McGee (Greenwillow; $13) is comic art. Some 80 years after the poem was composed, Painter Ted Harrison has complemented the work with bold and antic landscapes of the Yukon in the days of the gold rush. McGee, frozen over, demands, "I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains." His listener agrees, only to find a surprise when he opens the furnace door. Sam is inside, burbling, "Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time...
...yearlong concert tour, beginning in Tokyo on Sept. 12; it is his first show since his 1984 tour with his brothers. A triumph seems assured: the box office was cleaned out in 7 1/2 hours, and $45 seats were soon on the black market for $775. After years of antic hibernation, Michael Jackson, now 29, is again ready for the world. Is the world ready for Michael Jackson? It has no choice...
...accomplished fact. In this show -- the first attempt by a U.S. museum at a conspectus of the subject -- Curator McShine has done a good job of setting out, in samples rather than full packages (55 artists are represented), the peculiar mix of political intelligence, sharp irony, antic humor, mythic yearnings, brusque self-doubt and curiously facile pictorial effects that helped define Berlin's cultural temper before Nazism and that came back, with many variations, after...
...these lapses from accepted political decorum suggest an antic disposition, Schroeder has that -- along with a formidable gift for phrasemaking. It was she who first dubbed Reagan the "Teflon President" and defense contractors the "welfare queens of the Reagan Administration." She dismisses doubts about her campaign with the same breezy confidence: "America is man enough to elect a woman President." Or, at the very least, to let a woman...
...writ large. RCA has just released four compilations of Presley material with scrupulous "audio restoration": The Top Ten Hits, The Number One Hits and, most crucially, The Complete Sun Sessions, recorded at the start of his career, and The Memphis Record, recorded in 1969, when all the anger and antic experimentation of rock seemed to have left Elvis in the lurch. The 23 songs on The Memphis Record (never released all together until now) were originally conceived as a reassertion of Presley's primacy. In 1987 they sound like a premature last testament. The Memphis Record, as it turns...