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Above all, however, “The Oresteia” left audiences with the sense that they were witnessing the echo of an ART (American Repertory Theater) show proper: the juxtaposition of a classical text with zany costumes, video projections, moments of kookiness, and po-mo poignancy were served up in proportions roughly equal to what one pays ten times the price to witness during the ART season (think: Highway Ulysses...
Oddly though, he briefly does try to make G-rated versions of Aftermath tracks; “Could U Love Me” is an empty echo of 50 Cent’s “21 Questions.” Unfortunately, it lacks the growl and the danger that propels that former track’s narrative. Smith is so pure and inoffensive it’s hard to believe he would be in the type of situation that could end love. It’s hip-hop for those who like the idea...
...Like an echo from the past, Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers of America, is back in the news. Between 1965 and 1973, he organized two grape boycotts and won passage in 1975 of the first state law guaranteeing farmworkers the right to unionize. Now Chavez is again launching a boycott of California grapes, contending that the 1975 law is rarely enforced. Says he: "Farmworkers continue to be fired, coerced and abused by corporate growers...
...Washington's turn last week to be stunned. In an astonishing turnaround, Yurchenko, in effect, redefected to Moscow, leaving behind a furor of questions, doubts and recriminations that promise to echo for months. Did Yurchenko simply have a change of heart, one brought about by the dark gremlins haunting a homesick mind, or by despair over being spurned by a Soviet girlfriend living in Canada? Or was he an ingenious fake, his flight to the U.S. and subsequent reversal shrewdly planned by the Soviets to humiliate the Reagan Administration and to glean secrets from debriefing sessions with the CIA? Either...
...disappear. Cashed-up China can afford to invest directly. But it hasn't yet done so in a big way, although it has assets of around $A2.2 billion in resources, real estate, power stations and farms. Still, China's buying potential elicits murmurs about "selling off the farm," an echo of grumbles that were once directed at the Americans and Japanese...