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Soccer, the lingua franca of sports everywhere else in the world, was finally - on tongues in the U.S. as the cup made its Stateside debut. And even if only a few in this country were fluent enough to know a penalty shot from a shootout, Americans filled up stadiums to watch. Now, even soccer-illiterate Yankees know how to say it: Gooooooaaaal...
After replacing his Nikes with a pair of baseball cleats, Air Jordan seemed distressingly earthbound as he made his debut in the minor leagues. When he bought a luxury bus for his team to travel in, critics carped that the whole endeavor was a vanity project. Yet the Birmingham Barons' rightfielder finished the season as one of just six players in AA ball to get 50 or more RBIs and steal 30 bases, proving he can do what he said he was there to do: play...
...exposure worked; it brought the Beatles radio celebrity first, recording stardom later. They made their BBC debut on March 7, 1962, three months before their first EMI studio gig and seven months before their first single was released. Nor did they desert the radio after Beatlemania became a benign worldwide epidemic. They continued to work hard and play hard on the BBC, recording 18 songs in one throat-strepping, fingernail-rending session. Up to June 1965, they appeared on 52 BBC broadcasts and played 88 different songs -- some their own compositions, but most the band's diligent imitations of American...
Happily, Watkins, Lopes and Thomas have been doing more than getting in the gossip columns lately; they've also been getting better. Their 1992 debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies, but it was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a funky, slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by the ubiquitous Babyface (who has composed recent hits...
Richard Wagner envisioned something he called a Gesamtkunstwerk -- an all- encompassing work of art -- that would meld music, poetry, drama, dance and stagecraft into one unified, glorious spectacle. The Minimalist composer Philip Glass, 57, has been inviting comparison with Wagner ever since the 1976 debut of his four-hour epic Einstein on the Beach, Wagnerian in length and scope if not in idiom; and the Wagnerian ideal has been evident in much of his later work as well -- in Hydrogen Jukebox's marriage of Minimalism to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg (1990), and in 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof...