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...inspired material in his next album, scheduled for release in early 1990. Gabriel, whose new Real World label focuses on non-Western music, based his score for the film The Last Temptation of Christ on the sounds of Brazil and Africa. Brazil's influence is also acknowledged by Roberta Flack on her late- 1988 album Oasis. "Under a warm Rio night/ We danced on the edge," she coos in a number dedicated to Brazilian singer-composer Djavan. "And my heart stood still/ Oh, Brazil, Oh, Brazil...
...knew I would get a lot of flack from relatives when I decided to go to school in the Northeast, but what I didn't anticipate was pressure from friends and other first-year students to conform to the Eastern way of life. My grandmother, you see, still wages the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War, if you weren't sure), and she couldn't stand the fact that I might go to the H-school and become or worse yet, date, a "blue-bellied Yankee." (Heaven forbid.) No one was really standing around giving me lessons...
...campaign to photo ops and sound bites, keep their candidates away from rancorous reporters and try, ever so discreetly, to manage the news. For a movie publicist, the methods and motives are the same; only the product is different. And by orchestrating the burgeoning infotainment press, a smart flack can detonate a bigger bang for the buck. Without spending a dollar on advertising (though millions will be lavished on print and TV ads), without cozying up to a single critic (though rave reviews are nice), he can secure a client's name in people's minds. "Publicity...
Speakes self-immolated, revealing in his White House memoirs Speaking Out how he had made up Reagan statements without the President's knowing. A fire storm followed. Speakes had violated a flack's first commandment: Be believable...
...analyzed proposals and policies on the requests of [congressional] committees, but there were always people who didn't like the answer," Rivlin says. "If we were getting flack from both ends of the spectrum we were doing what we were supposed to be doing...