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...body. While this accomodates the shift, it is annoying and detracts from the main action. The theme song is repeated four times throughout the production, apparently to make up for the play's lack of continuity. The last time around, it begins to sound more like a bad, overplayed disc on the local AM station...
Nevertheless, the appearance of young comics making fun of their own culture is a good sign. Says Comedian and Disc Jockey Don Imus: "It used to be Bob Hope making fun of hippies; now it's hippies making fun of hippies...
...other end of the ice, Chris Brig has been designated as the one who will attempt to keep Harvard's powerful offense from putting the puck in the net. Brig has seen that black rubber disc shot at him 882 times in 23 games this season. He has saved 784 of them for a 4.29 goals against average...
...shortly after he fled Russia, until 1942, a year before his death in Beverly Hills, Calif., at 69, Rachmaninoff was a steady visitor to the recording studios. Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Liszt and, of course, Rachmaninoff-the music of these and other composers he committed to disc. Unfortunately, throughout most of the ensuing years, collectors have been denied a comprehensive accounting of this legacy; as soon as one new Rachmaninoff album was issued, another seemed to be deleted from the catalogue. Rachmaninoff's first discs, eight recital pieces by Chopin, Mozart, Scarlatti, Liszt and himself that were...
...recently been rocked to its storage bins by the firing of its adroit, youthful (41) president, Clive Davis, on grounds of improperly diverting corporate funds to personal uses. Fears of a scandal concerning "drugola"-the alleged currying of favor by supplying acid, pot and cocaine to rock groups and disc jockeys-hung over the entire industry, Columbia included. When Davis' successor strode to the podium and began his remarks by quipping: "A funny thing happened to me on my way to retirement," everyone laughed-but not too hard. If there was one person who could clean Columbia...