Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chris Difford and Glenn Tillbrook join forces on the songwriting, as in days of yore. Although the group had waited until 1983 to break up, it effectively lost its bearings after Argybargy in 1980, when keyboard wizard Julien "Jools" Holland decided to pack...
...Well, Holland's back. Paradoxically, his return is probably the major reason why this record goes nowhere. His omnipresent keyboards suffuse this album at virtually every turn. There's some pretty classy synthesizer--Moog organ, piano, etc.--but the cuts remain stale, hermetically sealed as "great concepts...
...film Mishima, about the Japanese novelist and warrior manque; Glass also scored Godfrey Reggio's 1982 vision of environmental apocalypse, Koyaanisqatsi. Currently the composer is finishing a new opera based on Novelist Doris Lessing's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, to be premiered in Holland in the spring...
...Hague, Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, who is Catholic, improvised on his prepared statement to tell the Pope, "In Holland, we are tolerant toward people who are different or who think differently." The clear message: You are not. "To be quite frank," Lubbers added, "simply the word Rome makes some people uneasy, if not downright suspicious...
...purpose of the Pope's visit is to defend orthodox church teachings before Holland's more than 5.6 million Catholics, whose freethinking clergy have been heavily influenced since Vatican II by Calvinist individualism and Protestant independence...