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...with any clash of empires, the battle of the giants in telecommunications is going to make it difficult for anyone smaller to survive. GTE (1984 sales: $14.5 billion), for example, is having troubles with Sprint, its long-distance telephone service. MCI may have found the secret for survival by hitching its wagon to IBM's star...
...brilliant," at once "striking, convenient and, above all, a sympathetic setting for works of art." Counters Law Professor Charles M. Haar: "The Sackler is even uglier than the Burr Lecture Hall that was there before. The site must be cursed by Apollo." The Sackler's alternately amusing and infuriating clash of details may blind critics to its innovations. The theatrical staircase, for example, clearly separates three stories of public exhibitions at one side of the building from five stories of educational, research and administrative activities on the other. In the galleries, the doorways and changing proportions of the rooms subtly...
...Amid the clash of national politics, Volcker comes across as something of an anomaly...
...reacted to prejudice by creating an isolated world in which she need not tolerate the least compromise, and her backup trumpet player (Charles Dutton), a keenly ambitious composer-arranger who is fixated on the memory of his mother's rape by white thugs. When these two potent wills clash, the bystander who suffers is, inevitably, one of their own and not a white oppressor. Episodic and slow but vividly real in portraying even minor characters, Ma Rainey marks the emergence of a substantial new voice for the theater...
...prototypical Angry Young Man--cashed in the Jam's inarticulate outrage for the smooth sounds of cabaret Jazz at the same time that Boy George--the painted mockery of preening masculinity--snared the attention of transatlantic audiences. The dire warnings about the System co-opting integrity bands like the Clash was only rock-press pablum. Even if Joe Strummer had held on to his elitist-bashing ethics in the face of record label take-over attempts of the sort T. Boone Pickens would admire, the great unwashed masses of record buyers would have written out his doom. Fashion sells, quality...