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...presenting such offbeat performers as Sinead O'Connor, Neil Young and Squeeze. Then an appearance by ex-Eagle Don Henley "upped the ante," according to MTV creative director Judy McGrath. Now the show regularly ranks as one of the network's best-performing programs. In April it scored a coup by snagging R.E.M. for one of only two concerts the band performed in the U.S. to promote its No. 1 album, Out of Time. Last month Unplugged broke musical ground by offering an acoustic jam headlined by rappers L.L. Cool J and De La Soul that exposed...
WOODY ALLEN by Eric Lax (Knopf; $24). Seldom is heard an embarrassing word, but this biography gets its facts straight and -- in something of a literary coup -- reaps the benefits of its subject's cooperation. Now if Woody Allen would only consent to tell this story...
This program is so frightening to communist hard-liners as to spur speculation -- some of it inside Yeltsin's entourage -- that they might attempt a military coup to prevent anything like it from being carried out, in Russia or the other republics. Actually, though, the greater danger might be that Yeltsin will simply be unable to deliver, and his failure will sour a disillusioned populace not only on him but on democracy itself. Yeltsin takes office considerably overpromised. For example, he has pledged a hefty increase in pensions without offering any idea of how he proposes to raise the money...
...composed only of the Democratic Front. Resentments were further aggravated when Cohen announced that Washington supported the Eritreans' right to self-determination. Mobs marched to the gates of the U.S. embassy, shouting anti-American slogans and hurling stones into the compound. Protesters dubbed the change of government "Cohen's coup...
...visit to Dallas was slackened. It was all part of a plot, he tells Garrison, to eliminate Kennedy and put Lyndon Johnson in office so that the Vietnam War could be escalated. "This was a military-style ambush from start to finish," Garrison tells his staff later, "a coup d'etat with Lyndon waiting in the wings...