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...trend likely to fade away soon. "There is ongoing pressure to submit the best work and move right on to the next assignment," notes the Postal Service's Campbell. "These quick, focused classes help you live up to this challenge." Syllabus, anyone...
...band was invited to perform it at the White House for President Clinton. Sadly, after its grand entrance onto the music scene, Soul Asylum has not been able to produce another best-seller: David Pirner and Winona Ryder have long since broken up, and the band seemed to fade into obscurity...
...three-year transition period of co-chairmanship, a single chairman will take charge of the company. That chairman, you can wager, will come from Daimler-Benz. In short, Chrysler has been "bought" by Daimler-Benz. As a result, another great name in America's manufacturing history will gradually fade into oblivion. With only two American auto manufacturers left, we are at risk of losing the automobile industry, much as we have lost the consumer-electronics industry. While we celebrate our evolution into a "service economy," our trading partners are happy to take advantage of our naivete. WILLIAM J. LYNOTT, President...
...Night caught my ear. It's an admittedly queer place to start amid the glories of the Sinatra canon, a chintzy little hit from 1966 with a dopey pop-rock arrangement; the singer himself gives it the brush-off with his famous dooby-dooby-doo coda during the fade-out. But not everyone can start with What Is This Thing Called Love?, and even here Sinatra manages to invest the ticky-tacky lyrics--"Strangers in the night/ Exchanging glances/ Wondering in the night/ What were the chances"--with a palpable yearning that transcends, maybe even exalts its surroundings...
That was soon all too clear. Pop culture, once the domain of allusion--the cunning metaphor, the fade-out after that first kiss--now needed to spell and shout it out, as culture exploited every renegade adolescent impulse. The escape into elegance was replaced by the fun house of sensuality. In the new gross-out culture, bad taste was the official taste. Sit-com kids, once kittens and princesses, went rampantly rude. The inner child was triumphant--hear him roar...