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...infectious. When I sat down to watch the Olympics the next night, I felt excitable too and strangely absorbed--not only by the skating controversy but by the Games in general. I was hooked. In a way that I hadn't foreseen when I had turned on the seemingly endless opening ceremonies a couple of days earlier, I had gone from being a casual observer to an edge-of-my-seat obsessive. A fanatic...
Apparently nothing is too sacred for Davis in her endless quest for publicity, not even her father's fragile condition. She was quite happy to profit by writing self-pitying accounts of her childhood when President Reagan was in the public eye and she could churn up interest from the media. Now, at a time when he is losing his battle with Alzheimer's, Davis has reinvented herself as the caring daughter, using trite images plucked from some sentimental novel. Next she will be wangling television appearances as an Alzheimer's-patient caregiver. ANNE CAMERON Glendale, Calif...
...entire culture becomes an endless series of roles, all narrowly circumscribed within a certain communal definition of success. The projected images of individuals find themselves all focused on a single point, a backdrop of artifice and insincerity. As a result, the collection of people that leaves Harvard is in many ways less interesting than the one that entered...
...Those hopes are still quixotic. Israeli morale has strained under the weight of endless violence-European embassies report a rise in the number of Israelis applying for passports in the past year-but outrage at Palestinian terror is boundless. Polls show that more than 40% of Israelis want the army to retake land held by the Palestinian Authority. A majority still supports Sharon's merciless campaign against Arafat and suspected Palestinian terrorists. Few Israelis see an end to the violence, and most are prepared to keep fighting. Last week Sharon tried to boost public spirits by recounting the country...
Mapfumo’s music shares numerous elements with the best of modern trance music. Both are based around driving, endless beats although in Mapfumo’s case, the rhythms are in the distinctive compound measure of the thumb-piano. Both use subtle variations with no single instrument leading the melody, creating hugely long songs (Mapfumo’s penultimate song lasted at least 20 minutes). Most importantly, both create an irresistible urge to dance...