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...very strange that a group that prides itself on representing the underground turns us down because we can't pay them enough.'' Punk, essentially a working-class British genre, never went fully mainstream in happy-face America. But since then the U.S. has become a significant bit more like Britain: the sense of tapped-out, no-hope job anxiety that has settled over this country helps postpunk bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam sell millions of records. And with megapopularity comes the rub for another cycle of suddenly-rich-and-famous rock performers: What is a boy to do when...
...defense of President Waldheim.'' International reaction to the electoral triumph of the former U.N. Secretary-General was not much warmer. Official congratulations were withheld by Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and the Netherlands. President Reagan sent what his aides described as a ''correct'' message. In both the U.S. and Britain, legislators suggested that Waldheim be barred from their countries. But the sharpest protest against Waldheim's election came from Israel: Jerusalem promptly recalled its ambassador from Austria for an indefinite period. The action sharpened a painful dilemma for the Israeli government. On the one hand, Israeli leaders feel obligated to pursue...
...recognition of East Berlin as its capital and force Western countries to treat the Berlin Wall as an international border rather than a demarcation line in a city divided by a postwar agreement. The new rule created a diplomatic furor and led to strong protests from the U.S., Britain and France, which still have authority as the occupying powers in the Western part of the city. Some embassies even ordered their diplomats to take a circuitous route to West Berlin in order to avoid confrontations with the East German border guards. Last week the East Germans climbed down from their...
During his much publicized bachelorhood, Britain's Prince Andrew earned the nickname ''Randy Andy'' for squiring a variety of comely young women about town. The most famous of them was soft-porn Film Starlet Koo Stark. Now Andrew, 26, who is to wed Sarah Ferguson next month, is polishing his image. In a fund-raising speech before a group of London businessmen last week, Andrew decried loose morals. Said he: ''Moral pollution may well be a strong phrase to use, but I feel that it is justified, particularly when you look at the amount of gratuitous violence purveyed on television...
...Sigue Sigue Sputnik is a British band dedicated to new-wave rock music and what the group's bassist, Tony James, calls designer violence. The group is about to make a major breakthrough: its first LP, Sigue Sigue Sputnik Flaunt It, will be released in July in Britain--complete with commercials. The record has the ambiguous distinction of being the first to hawk wares between the cuts. Eight to ten 20- to 30-second tracks on the EMI record will extol such salables as cellular mobile telephones and fashion and youth magazines. According to Sigue Sigue, each advertising track will...