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...debuted last week (with Kris Kristofferson, 45, as her unbilled costar) on Entertainment Tonight. Since what's new is neo and what's hot is retro, the 6-min. clip for the song Left in the Dark features La Streisand as a vampy songstress in an Edward Hopper-style nightclub and in a '50s film noir setting. For Streisand, to compose a slight variation on an old theme of hers, the way she is is never...
...automobile won the public, though, its impact began to lose the artists. Diego Rivera, in his great murals Detroit Industry, showed the dehumanizing effects of assembly-line labor. So did Charlie Chaplin in his film Modern Times. Edward Hopper in Western Motel and similar paintings revealed the sterility of an emerging roadside culture. The architects, sympathetic to the potentials of technology, had a different view...
This success is due chiefly to the rich, seductive vocals of Linda Hopper and Lynda Stipe. Whether they are reciting rhymes like "One-two buckle my shoes" in flat monotone, or creating beautiful, dark harmonies in "Choukoutien" and "Elaine's Song", Hopper and Stipe manage to embrace both the earthy and unearthly, without sounding arch or immature...
...band, REM, especially since Linda Stipe is the sister of Michael, lead singer for REM. And, in fact, Oh-Ok and REM do have many common elements: guitar sounds, vague lyrics, and dream-like atmospheres. Fortunately, however. Oh-Ok does not try to match REM for lyrical ambiguity. Although Hopper and Stipe do create deceptive verbal tricks, they do not slur and clip their vocals to the extent that Michael Stipe does. REM presents the listener with an insoluable puzzle; with each new listening one continually hears new words and new meanings. Oh-Ok, however, repays closer listening with...
...credit for coining the name of a ubiquitous computer phenomenon: the bug. In August 1945, while she and some associates were working at Harvard on an experimental machine called the Mark I, a circuit malfunctioned. A researcher using tweezers located and removed the problem: a 2-in. long moth. Hopper taped the offending insect into her logbook. Says she: "From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...