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Already printed and being distributed internationally are 250,000 programs in five languages; the 170,000 at newsstands and bookstores in the U.S. sell for $10. A billboard campaign will be launched in major cities. Rudas reports successful negotiations with the FAA to encourage the diversion of air traffic from the stadium. Merrill Lynch is providing 56,000 binoculars to those lucky enough to attend. Add to that the usual souvenir paraphernalia: coffee mugs, baseball caps, T shirts. Top of the line: a $250 enamel box (nothing's in it). After the CD and the video are rushed...
This is the serious film--goers mecca. Expect to see very obscure foreign films with a lot of angst. But many of them will never be released anywhere else, are cherished archival pieces arejust plain weird and entertaining. Peruse their guide or notice their billboard and take a chance...
...Mike D's review suggests, the Beasties may have begun to take themselves a little too seriously. Their new record, Ill Communication, which entered the Billboard charts at No. 1, seems overproduced and drained of fun. One well-intentioned song, Bodhisattva Vow, offers lessons on Buddhist thought -- "I try to make my every action for that highest good/ With the altruistic wish to achieve Buddhahood" -- but the underlying music is a snore...
Hearing the first few minutes of The Division Bell, the new album by Pink Floyd that stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for four weeks, a listener has a distinct sense of deja vu. Mysterious rumbling noises on Cluster One, the first song, set a cosmic tone, and then comes What Do You Want from Me, with its languid beat and spare, spaced-out ambiance. It all seems reminiscent of the band's 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon, which sold more than 15 million copies and stayed on Billboard's Top 200 album chart...
...property rights don't have force here; otherwise the policy wonks who dreamed up this idea would be living large on the royalties from this policy sweeping the nation. "Three strikes and you're out" has enjoyed a success politically equivalent to having a number one album on the Billboard...