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...minute, my heart no longer beating, there is calm, a gap in the excitement as the still motionlessness of the early morning desert thrusts its awkward head in the side door of our mental tree house, a pause, a break--and then the moonface puts his hand on the front door passenger side handle and the realization hits me that this man is the governor of California, this man is Ronald Reagan, and I turn slowly towards the backseat, toward the agony of truth, for I know this implausibility can only come from within, that the exterior world however cruel...
Progressing from the impersonal panoply of statecraft to an almost hallucinatory intimacy of soulcraft, the libretto depicts Nixon as emotionally repressed and socially awkward but acutely aware of his role in history. Mostly written in couplets, the lyrics may sometimes be elliptical, but they are psychologically observant and very singable...
...trouble in Lhasa could hardly have come at a more awkward time for the Chinese leadership. Later this month the policies of Party Leader Deng Xiaoping will be reviewed at the 13th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Inevitably, the rioting in Tibet will strengthen the hand of critics who oppose Deng's liberalization efforts and believe the country has moved too quickly toward reform...
Stringer must still devise a solution to one of the network's most vexing problems. While the news division's past efforts were considered too staid to become widely popular, The Morning Program had the opposite trouble. Hartley's awkward one-liners and forced banter were particularly grating. "It was like screeching nails against a blackboard," says Steve Friedman, former executive producer of Today and one of The Morning Program's most enthusiastic detractors...
Much the same can be said for the latest batch of releases from the Minneapolis Sound. Prince's backup band, the Revolution, has dispersed. Wendy & Lisa's first project away from supporting Prince as members of the Revolution is an awkward, mystical disaster. Sheila E.'s most recent album is worth more for the seductive cover than the music inside it. And, horror of horrors, former time members turned successful producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have announced that Pia Zadora's upcoming LP is next on their list of projects for their Flyte Tyme Productions team...