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...this year's biennial was generally agreed to be the worst in living memory. The six curators seemed to have their neural nets patched directly into Manhattan's East Village, that journalists' playpen of urban gentrification, which in the '80s is replacing SoHo as the city's art-based boomtown, its Montmartre of the Neo. There is a small deposit of serious East Village art, but none was represented at the Whitney...
...been the desperate search for the Big Score, the Real Deal, the pot of gold at the end of the red, white, and blue rainbow. The quest for the material epiphany to the American dream attracts thousands to Hollywood. Las Vegas, Wall Street, and even a ramshackle Wyoming boomtown called Gillette...
This profound expression of universal brotherhood was penned by two men who combine the all American integrity of Wayne Newton with the political sophistication of Pia Zadora: Michael Jackson and Fionel Richie. Instigated by Band Aid organizer (and Boomtown Rats packleader) Bob Geldorf and produced by Quincy Jones, USA for Africa has more celebs per square inch than the Grammys. Recorded in a session inscribed upon destiny by Life magazine and a video crew, the song is lumped on old vinyl with a Canadian cousin ("Tears Are Not Enough") and some outtakes of other artists...
...exceptional cause. So 37 top musicians made a point of showing up at 10:30 a.m. in a London studio to record Do They Know It's Christmas? The one-day superstar session-dubbed Band Aid-was organized by Bob Geldof, leader of the British group Boomtown Rats, to raise money for the famine victims of Ethiopia. The $2 single, which will be released in the U.S. this week, has already sold a million copies in England, where it appeared three weeks ago. The record is "enough to make a difference, but it's also a statement," says...
...coiffed and bespectacled Whitmire is no longer called "Tootsie," an unflattering reference to her resemblance to Actor Dustin Hoffman in the film by that name. A certified public accountant and dedicated feminist, Whitmire served two terms as city controller before winning the top job. She has run the flagging boomtown with businesslike efficiency, resisting new taxes while improving garbage collection and paving miles of streets. In 1982 she shocked the Houston Establishment by appointing Lee Brown, a black and an outsider, to head the problem-plagued police department...