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...liner notes to Breaking God's Heart, the debut album by Scotland's Hefner, contain three injunctions, which characterize Hefner rather well: "If you like this record send us one of yours. Be kind to small businesses. Buy more Beach Boys records." These are good sentiments, well meaning and empty headed. Such is their music. Hefner's Brit-pop inclinations are balanced by Antony Harding's vocals, which careen from Elvis Costello to the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano--although the lyrics never come close to the wit or heart of those...
...Barr on a talk show claiming he doesn't hate the President. Poppycock! Of course he hates Clinton. The horrendous hypocrisy of this entire matter was exactly as White stated. Why should lying about sex be worse than lying about something far worse--racial bigotry? SCOTT GADDEN North Myrtle Beach...
...characters are stylized and predictable, from her distant father and elegant mother to the Swedish personal trainer named Greta. Her parents have all the standard trappings of wealth: mansion in Connecticut, Florida beach house, Aspen condo. Even the psychological background created through carefully spliced-in childhood flashbacks is contrived and formulaic. It is textbook. Her parents were never physical with their child...they were never physical with one another...they never yelled, but "Silence was the weapon" in their household. Jane feels perpetually inferior to them. Estranged from her identity, haunted by her parent's expectations, rejected by medical schools...
...favorite piece of the evening was a series of variations by Jacob Reys on the popular tune Une Jeune Fillette, in which the melody is tossed back and fourth between two voices that seem never quite to catch it. The melody is continually in the air, bouncing like a beach ball on the contrapunctal complexity of the music...
...group of all-Irish-owned establishments scattered in the not-so-nice areas of town. But according to Mike, the manager, the Harp can get like a "beach pahtay" on some nights with a wacky one-man band downstairs and a kickin' concert upstairs. Live shows at the Harp are a staple. Boston College, Boston University and Suffolk students have all gone wild cheering the likes of Eddie Money and the Jerry Garcia Band over the years...