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...suck away time) and gave the audience two tracks that went way back into the Cure's infancy. "10:15 Saturday Night" and "Killing and Arab" reached back to 1979 and ended a triumphant night for the Cure. Although the band's popularity has waned from their 80s heyday, the Cure proved that their musical prowess...
...since the heyday of devo (or, perhaps, MC Hammer) have the worlds of nerds and rock so converged. As rockers embrace the Net with fan pages and Web-simulcast concerts, the two cultures have intermingled. Can you tell which is the band and which is the provider of bandwidth? --By Joel Stein...
Artists in all media know that a touch of imperfection--a barely missed beat, Streisand's nose--can breathe life into a work. But perfectibility is the Promethean temptation of Hollywood's computer-graphics revolution, which is giving movies a glossy hyperreality unseen since the heyday of the studio system while distracting us from their essential soullessness. And if the computer's single greatest achievement to date has been the astonishingly life-like dinosaurs of the astonishingly lifeless Jurassic Park and The Lost World, creating digital humans of similar believability remains the industry's Holy Grail...
...flap comes at a time when the A.M.A. least needs it. Once it commanded virtually unchallenged respect. Today its power, despite a membership of 300,000, is greatly diminished from its heyday in the 1960s, when it had enough clout on Capitol Hill to dictate substantial changes in Medicare laws. Older physicians in particular are dismayed that it has been unable to slow down the managed-care revolution that has deprived them of income and decision-making power over patients. Many younger physicians find the organization simply irrelevant...
Both because of and despite such associations, Bacharach, 69, is currently enjoying greater popularity than at any other time since his heyday in the 1960s and early '70s, when, working against the rock grain, he was responsible for dozens of Top 40 hits, including surprisingly nuanced adult-oriented love songs for performers like Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield and, his greatest vessel of all, Dionne Warwick. The current renaissance--Bacharach's last big hit was 1985's That's What Friends Are For--began a few years ago, with the explosion of interest in so-called lounge music, especially in Britain...