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...high schoolers will be engaging in their usual vehicular mating ritual. Guys in long baggy shorts leaning against their Jeeps; girls strolling by in laughing pairs or trios; the pumping music on the Jeep stereos expressing everything that's unsaid. And what will be playing? Bell Biv DeVoe. Dr. Dre. And this album. Conscious of history, the Tonyies have made themselves a band of the here...
...Need a Joint: "So how to get over, how to get by?/ I wish I had a joint to get me high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully...
...incendiary rap groups in the hood. Its growing stable of raucous rappers range from the explosive Ice Cube, who provoked public outrage nearly two years ago with songs that called for the killing of a white Jewish businessman and threatened arson against Korean grocers, to the dreaded Dr. Dre, whose lyrics have also advocated violence. Last month the Los Angeles-based firm added to its own notoriety by signing up the bad boy of rap, Ice-T, after he and Time Warner's Sire label severed their ties. His inflammatory cut Cop Killer set off a fire storm of protests...
...that is not the worst of page 75. Lukacher translates two sentences "What does he do with DER? I wonder: (scin-, [pre]scin-,[re]scin-, DER)." I'm confused. The junk in the parentheses in French is "sans, sens, sang, cent DRE," or, literally "Without, meaning, blood...
There are a few inappropriate giggles at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, but no matter. The important thing is that French Composer Maurice Ghana's jagged, surrealistic chamber opera, Syllabaire pour Phèdre (1967), has found a stage. Together with Henry Purcell's well-known yet seldom performed 17th century opera Dido and Aeneas, Ghana's work last week inaugurated the Metropolitan Opera's Mini-Met-officially known as the Opera at the Forum...