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...Late Night has found its place as a nightly cultural ritual. It has a personalized and cultivated classic sense fostered by Conan's own penchant for past-hipster 1950's graphics and classic Hollywood photo stills, and a first-rate jazz ensemble fading to commerical with bop-style selections. The peppering of slightly-off Lampoon humor and cutting-edge musical guests propels the show out of the starchy promotion-circuit interview format. After nearly nine months of gestating under constant media scrutiny of the now-hyper-commercialized late night niche, the energy at the tapings has perceptibly and sharply mounted...
...middle range, Watson with veritable sheets of sound wailing, and Jackson with a mature and noticeably improved opening solo. Running alongside, bassist Richard Reid was consistent and swung well, while drummer Louis Hayes' creative intensity locked with Williams' comping style. Williams' own solo included everything from neo-bop lines to booming bass octaves with his left hand, putting his own mark on the tune...
...three would-be warriors had been part of a doomed attempt to defend a remnant of apartheid even as South Africa transforms itself into a multiracial state. One of 10 remote domains created and recognized only by Pretoria's old leadership, Bophuthatswana -- nicknamed "Bop" -- symbolizes apartheid's failed ambition to confine South Africa's blacks in putatively independent tribal homelands. It is home to Sun City, the lavish gambling resort that has been loudly boycotted by many American performers. President Lucas Mangope, who has ruled as a dictator since the homeland was founded in 1977, suffered such a stinging rebuke...
...weekend was quite an eventful one for South Africans as President Lucas Mangope of the Bophuthatswana homeland was forced to resign by the South African government. Mangope had declined to take part in April's national elections. As president, he stood to lose too much with the reintegration of Bop (Bophuthatswana's more colloquial name), becoming yet another insignificant ex-leader rather than remaining a big fish in a little pond. The South African government seems to have forgotten that five years ago they reinstated Mangope after a popular coup removed him from power...
...have been skewed by the turmoil. The Human Rights Commission's just-released January statement reports that "no major massacres" occurred in that month. How warped our sense of perspective has become, that massacres are determined as "major" or "minor." The killing this weekend of three AWB members in Bop, and the racially motivated executions of three Iranians attending Bahai church services elsewhere in the country, both reflect the terrible trauma this country has suffered and must now deal with...