Word: concert
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Those are largely tactical considerations. At the strategic level of coping with the gulf crisis and with Iran, experts find far fewer cut-and-dried answers. One strongly held view, however, is that Washington must devise all its moves in the region in much closer concert with U.S. allies. "The incredible feature of the gulf at the moment is how the U.S. is standing virtually alone, exposed," says Military Historian Edward Luttwak, author of Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace. As Luttwak sees it, "The whole lesson of history teaches the necessity of achieving consensus, at home and abroad...
Britisher Billy Bragg titled his last album Talking With The Taxman About Poetry after a 1926 poen by Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. But a typical Bragg concert, like the sold-out show last week at the Paradise, is more like "Talking With the Rock Star About Foreign Policy...
...master of self-deprecation, Bragg calls himself the "big-nosed bastard from Barking." In person last Thursday, he looked handsome and healthy, not in the least worn out by his heavy tour schedule. And, as in concert, he provide to be a compulsive communicater, speaking rapidly in his gruff, not-always-comprehensible cockney accent...
...much a revival as a complete reconsideration of the 1971 Stephen Sondheim musical, set at a reunion of performers of Ziegfeld-style spectacles. The original version won five Tony Awards but lost nearly all its then awesome $800,000 investment, and save for a 1985 Lincoln Center concert version, there has been no revival. The $3 million-plus London production opened to bigger advance sales than Cats, Les Miserables or the current hottest ticket, Phantom of the Opera, according to Cameron Mackintosh, who produced them all. If it thrives, he envisions raising $8 million to "help bring Follies back...
Madonna gives a concert that raises $400,000 for AIDS research. The same night, friends of Playwright Charles Ludlam, dead at 44, pay tribute to the "funniest man in America." AIDS has decimated the artistic community. Now artists are fighting back. They write AIDS plays and songs, give benefit concerts and, for those with the disease, face the future with grit and gallantry...