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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...express the mood or emotional feelings he wishes, Kushnik paints a rainbow of "styles" into his songs--from the satirically self-mocking "A M-pop-hit-single" style of "Electric Eyes of Love" to a surrealist piano accompaniment of a laughing box, called "Opus 354: Sonata for Piano and Laughing Box." Or take the sentimental favorite. "New York City," which consists of three stoccato piano chords followed by a shout of get out of the way, you fuck." Bruce fittingly calls his music "Surrealist Neo-Classic Avant Garde Jazz/Rock and Roll...

Author: By Michael Barber, | Title: Response | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

After an unsuccessful bid to buy the Sunday Observer, Goldsmith established a beachhead in British journalism last January by paying Press Baron Rupert Murdoch $3 million for 35% of the non-voting shares in London's Beaverbrook newspaper chain, which includes the ailing daily Express. Sunday Express and Evening Standard. Now Sir Jimmy has struck at the other end of his London-Paris axis: for $6 million he has purchased a 45% share in L'Express, France's largest newsweekly. The magazine's founder, gadfly Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and his family will retain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sir Jimmy's Cross-Channel Fiefdom | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...Jimmy says he was invited to buy into L'Express because it needs both cash and pizazz. Servan-Schreiber, 53, had used his magazine as an ideological soapbox for President Valery Giscard d'Estaing -whose centrist political strategy was badly mauled in last month's local elections (TIME, March 28). Largely because of the magazine's predictable politics and occasional drabness, some readers have shifted to a sprightly, aggressive rival, Le Point. While L 'Express still sells .twice as many copies as Le Point, circulation has slumped by some accounts from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sir Jimmy's Cross-Channel Fiefdom | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...part Goldsmith views L'Express as an opportunity to educate himself about publishing so that he can later apply what he learns in Britain. So far he has no editorial control over the Beaverbrook papers, but his nonvoting shares (which he recently increased by another 5%) could become enfranchised if a law affecting stock ownership and backed by both the Tory and Labor parties should be passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sir Jimmy's Cross-Channel Fiefdom | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Without the dancers (June Kinoshita, Mira Nair, Maura Moynihan, Laurie Merrick) the plot would not hold together well, nor would it be as exciting. The dancers' movements are poetic, blending with the words and the music so thoroughly that they are inseparable. The different elements explain and express each other...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Drama for the Senses | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

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