Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Biology concentrator at Harvard, and I always study and never drink anything stronger than Classic Coke. I've looked everywhere in Gray's Anatomy, but I can't find a straight answer...
...mettle. Where the Wild Things Are, a 45- minute opera with music by British Composer Oliver Knussen and sets, costumes and libretto by Sendak, received its American stage premiere two weeks ago at the Minnesota Opera in St. Paul. Like the book, the opera promises to become a minor classic...
While the speech was in many ways classic Botha, it also turned out to be the most precise statement to date of how far he is willing to bend to accommodate South Africa's disenfranchised black majority. Calling for "cooperative coexistence," he proposed a confederation of geographic and ethnic "units," with each racial group having responsibility for its "own affairs," including education, social welfare and residential areas. On matters of "mutual concern," meaning economic, defense and foreign policy, political structures would be created to permit discussion "without the one group having the right to dominate the others." To those familiar...
WHICH EXPLAINS why Arista Records, with whom Reed was affiliated from 1976-80, has just released Classic Performances by Lou Reed: City Lights, an album attempting to chronicle the most underrated and, honestly, least coruscating years of Reed's career. These were the years after RCA, Reed's original and once-again label, abandoned him as a relic, a shadow of his past triumphs. He migrated to Arista and did a few years of soul-searching songstering (and drying up) before returning to RCA and getting back on track...
...concept of the album is interesting. You can't do a greatest hits package without a single hit, and someone was really exercising creativity in subtitling the album "classic performances...