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Landin concurs, "Street performing is not aseasy as it seems. A performer with a large crowdhas learned from disappointment." The hardest partabout this most public of performances, accordingto Landin, is that "you're out there, baring yoursoul, and you want someone to give it attention.'Especially during rush hour, crowds can beinsensitive to the musical and personal risks theartists may be taking: most commuters rarely stopfor longer than a glance or scowl. "You might bedoing something really good, but no one paysattention." says Landin...
FATHER GREG (LINUS ROACHE), the young priest at a Catholic parish in Liverpool, is handsome, theologically conservative--and gay. His boss, Father Matthew (Tom Wilkinson), spouts socialist dogma and has sex with his live-in housekeeper. The husband of the parish's hardest-working volunteer forces sex on their daughter. The local bishop is a ward heeler in a cassock...
...hardest things to write is a song that has no specific meaning but nonetheless conjures up powerful feelings or ideas. Bluntly themed, big-haired, Bon Jovi-like rock anthems are commonplace. But it takes someone of exceptional talent--R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan, Prince--to create a song that makes little rational sense but still rings true emotionally. We expect this from poets; we rarely get it from rockers...
...harpist, but their instruments are wired to not strictly kosher onstage electric amplifiers. Still, the show has grit and guts. Love, relaxing later at a local club with comic Sandra Bernhard, is upbeat: "I thought it went well." Erlandson is less sure: "That was one of the hardest things I ever...
...Dole is playing the hardest ball of all. In New York, a state Dresner identifies as ideologically hospitable to Wilson's brand of moderate Republicanism, Dole, to use his own word, has sent Wilson an unmistakable "message.'' Virtually every prominent New York Republican, beginning with Senator Al D'Amato, has announced for Dole ahead of the schedule set several months ago. In some places endorsements are greeted with yawns. But in New York having the G.O.P. machine in your corner can mean you run unopposed. "We've got Soviet-style ballot-access rules," D'Amato complained in 1988, when George...