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Perhaps it was the poor acoustics of the decrepit walls of the Orpheum in dire need of a makeover, because the experience was like someone Nerf hammering my head and conducting a psychological study on the effect of flashing different colors of light for two hours straight. The only respite from the garish lighting design was the few seconds when a dramatic toplight isolated Lang at center stage. Thanks to Andy Warhol, artsy for artsy's sake is now status quo. On top of that, the non-stop songs pummeled my body with their monotonous cacophony for so long that...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HERE'S JONNY! | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

PRINCETON, N.J.--Princeton University Stadium, constructed last year to replace its decrepit, 84-year-old predecessor, is with good reason the pride and joy of Old Nassau this season...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Can't Buy A Win | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...details of the budget agreement, we are pleased that funds have been allocated for the hiring of 100,000 new teachers but wish that these new instructors could be held to some national standard of competency and money had been allocated to build new schools and refurbish old and decrepit ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Deal With Congress | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...race, politics and sexual orientation. The hero, played by Steven Williams, is a black Republican who owns a bar in a rundown but gentrifying neighborhood of Washington. His regular customers include a natty lobbyist, a prostitute, an African cab driver and, the only white, an aide to a decrepit Southern Senator. Pam Grier plays the smart, attractive head of a children's advocacy group. The show is worthy, but its ideas are obvious and it lacks what those coarse series do at least offer--humor, life, energy. Weighed down by the tone of dead-serious satire, the jokes on Linc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linc's | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...center-right economic program. But as TIME?s Bonn bureau chief Jordan Bonfante warns, the analogy has its limits: ?While Schroeder would like nothing more than to be likened to Blair, the major difference is that the Christian Democrats are not the Tories,? says Bonfante. ?Where Blair faced a decrepit and unpopular party, the CDU is still a strong and vigorous political force.? And Chancellor Kohl is no Prime Minister Major. As Schroeder's four predecessors found, it's none too easy to write off the West?s longest-serving leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ich Bin Ein Blair? | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

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