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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with their common record label, these bands also share a common attempt to launch a video career, presumably in search of the publicity offered by MTV and other video-music sources. Their attitudes about video, however, seem to differ widely: Pat Gribben of the Adventures claims that he feels music is far more important than video, but Divinyl Christina Amphlett and Simon F both project a definite image to accompany their music. The music, as Gribben predicts, may well suffer because of these efforts to do two things at once...
...ancestors dealt with death and disease forthrightly and, by today's standards, insensitively. Their attitudes toward sickness and their public health policy reflected priorities that differ significantly from our own. Lepers and typhoid carriers were taken away and permanently isolated; murderers were hanged. One could claim that the attitudes that motivate quarantine and capital punishment are barbaric; but in fact a lack of options mandated, even created, these attitudes...
Many playwrights master technique, a fair number possess innate narrative gifts, but only a few achieve a genuine, persuasive voice. When plays are described as depicting reality, the statement cannot be taken literally: a set is recognizably a set, not a house or a tree, and speeches palpably differ from authentically aimless conversation. What makes a set seem real, what enables dialogue to stand for experience is the writer's capacity to create an alternative world, distinctively his own, and lure audiences into it. That talent is the true measure of voice, a blend of personality and vision...
...adherents differ from other lawyers who think there's something wrong with society and want to change it. On the one hand, CLS rejects the usual progressive liberal politics whereby cumulative reforms within the legal system, such as fighting for the rights of a minority group in a court case, are supposed to change society for the better. On the other hand, CLS does not strike like a band of intellectual terrorists from the fringes of society to smash legal and cultural icons. It tries to use two apparently contradictory strategies at the same time: fighting for someone's rights...
...radiant sound emerges from a 5-ft. 3-in., 120-lb. frame like Athena leaving the head of Zeus: pure and full blown, and shimmering like celestial chimes. "Her voice is remarkably beautiful," says Met Music Director James Levine, who has been Battle's mentor since 1973. "All voices differ, and there are lots of beautiful voices, but hers has a unique personality and a unique timbre." Others echo Levine's praise. Kurt Herbert Adler, former general director of the San Francisco Opera, cast Battle as Oscar the page in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera in 1977. Remembers Adler...