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Brooks manufactures a kind of hydrogenated country music -- pop and branch water -- that has a message and no menace, just as his live shows have the trappings of rock without rock's edge of danger or (as in the case of Bruce Springsteen) its all-out emotional engagement. He's a country performer not only for country folk who want a kick, but for city slickers who don't want to stray too far from the superficial trappings of rock. He's new and familiar at the same time. And at the right time...
...local levels. He predicts that "some tough negotiations lie ahead." The biggest gap is between the A.N.C.'s unyielding demand for majority rule and De Klerk's concept of "power sharing." To him, that must mean constitutional provisions for including minority -- that is, white -- parties in the executive branch and providing them with an effective veto over vital legislation...
...West Coast branch of Conceptualism, which Wegman joined during the two years he spent in the Los Angeles area starting in 1970, had the best comedians. In his early days Ed Ruscha photographed parking-lot patterns from the air: a satirist's geometric abstraction. Bruce Nauman photographed himself performing visual puns, like shooting water from his mouth and calling the picture Self-Portrait as a Fountain. And Wegman started making deadpan videos of himself spraying an entire can of deodorant into his armpit. When his new Weimaraner got into the act, Wegman recognized that it was enough to tape...
Brown has been able to convey an authentic outsider mentality despite the fact that two years ago he was the head procurer for the Sacramento branch of the professional political class. The chairmanship of the California Democratic Party was an odd job for someone who had never slapped a back and who once vowed to limit state lobbyists to "two hamburgers and a Coke." His tenure there is now held up by party regulars as an example of unprincipled ambition. But Brown looks back at the two-year stint as party chairman like an alcoholic at his last binge...
Nine Boston-area colleges are represented in the four-week-long pool tournament, which takes place simultaneously between eight institutions at the Worcester branch of the Boston pool club...