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...offer him nothing, just LBJ's ghost...

Author: By G.k. Wenceslas, | Title: Intimations of Crimson Munificence | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...story to preclude glimpses of fast-food workers and airline pilots, or riffs of rap and gospel music, and it's reasonable enough to have an urban American Tiny Tim (T.T. to his kin) be a victim of a random shooting instead of a mysterious wasting disease. If the ghost of Christmas present dresses like Santa and quotes Diet Pepsi commercials, that doesn't keep him from making the eternal case for charity. If the ghost of Christmas past summons up not only old Fezziwig but also Tarzan and Little Orphan Annie, Frederick Douglass and the Washington Redskins, the hokum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Rap on Scrooge | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...whose voice and manner were as brassy as Midler's own, who haunted her. "It was one of those legendary performances I'd always heard about. Her spirit and the history of the part were always looming over me." There are moments when she seems inhabited by Merman's ghost, either in vocal inflections or in her movements, which are occasionally as corseted and semaphoric as the Merm's. Yet for the most part, Midler makes the role her own. She conveys much less anger than most predecessors, and rather more romance. Her relationship with manager-paramour Herbie (Peter Riegert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Comes Up Roses | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...Mars where we WANT the funk, we GOT TO HAVE that funk. No sir Sir Nose D'Voidof Funk. And psychadelics and psychadelia and even th'MOTHERS turn this mother out and acid laced and Acapulco Brick & 40 acres and a mule & hash for everyone. Casper the Holy Ghost and Bootsy's Rubber Band. Cartoons. Car toons. Car tunes...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...limit the daily 12- hour blackouts of summer, spent some of its precious cash on cheap, dirty oil to fire the electric plants. But nights are still dark and silent; only the light from the tourist hotels casts a faint glow over the ocean-front Malecon. Havana is a ghost of itself, its once vibrant life leached out by hard times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Alone | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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