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...wishes. The problem with too much TV is that it delivers exactly what the audience thinks it wants. Whereas great shows spring on the public something it never would have asked for: a sitcom making fun of the Korean War (M*A*S*H), a show about a Cuban band leader and his wife in the white-bread '50s (I Love Lucy) or a farce about the selfish exploits of four whiny New Yorkers (Seinfeld...
...Then came the Bay of Pigs in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. American support of right-wing generals in Laos further eroded Lee's trust in the government...
...example, that the Bush administration's appointee to head the State Department's Latin America desk, Otto Reich, is in trouble. Reich ran the domestic propaganda campaign for the Reagan administration's program backing the Nicaraguan contras, and was nominated with strong backing from right-wing anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami. A Senate Foreign Relations Committee run by anyone other than Jesse Helms may question Reich's appropriateness for the challenges of today's Latin America...
Byron has devoted albums to the klezmer music of the eastern European Jews, to a variant Afro-Cuban sound he describes as "pan-Caribbean" and to a hybrid funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from...
...Byron has devoted albums to the klezmer music of the eastern European Jews, to a variant Afro-Cuban sound he describes as "pan-Caribbean" and to a hybrid funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from...