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...maybe not the Go-Go's). The day I walked into my town's music store and bought both the new Indigo Girls album and the Beastie Boys' "Ill Communications," the clerk told me I won the prize for breadth of taste, and I knew I'd made a breakthrough. That said, there was something disingenuous in my suddenly picking out the Beastie Boys at age 16. As an established member of the Indigo-Girls-and-Ani-DiFranco crowd, I was fully aware of and attracted to the incongruity of my knowing all the words to "Sabotage." I was consciously...
...directors latest, the fanciful Sweet and Lowdown, is in most respects a minor work of art, though it is pleasant and interesting. But enthusiasts should note that it represents something of a breakthrough for Allen, in that the main character, fictional 30s jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), is a brooding, inarticulate, freewheeling figure motivated by moody emotions. Sure, hes neurotic as hell, but not in the style of nebbishy self-analysis that has informed so many Allen protagonists. Emmets comic/pathetic exploits are governed by the cadences of jazz, which has always been a background presence in Allens movies...
...livelihood of farmers to genetically modified food as reason to fight tooth and nail against any moves to open up their produce markets. President Clinton tried at the last minute to get the G7 heads of state to come to Seattle to generate the political momentum necessary for a breakthrough, but they politely declined...
...leads the new Northern Ireland Executive, established on Monday in an historic breakthrough for power sharing...
...need to know because we need to know: A new book hypothesizing that AIDS originated in a polio vaccine may reflect our discomfort with being unable to control our environment more than it provides any scientific breakthrough. British journalist Michael Hooper's "The River" amasses a wealth of circumstantial evidence supporting the theory that the HIV virus made the jump from animals to humans via an experimental batch of polio vaccine manufactured in part from chimpanzee tissue that may have been infected. "This theory is partially testable, because there are still some stocks of the oral polio vaccine in question...