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While the "skill" positions are filled, Harvardencounters some serious difficulties along theline. Currently, the Crimson features only onereturning starter: senior guard Jeff Landry...
...radio devolved into a dictatorship of rock; songs like Tomorrow (from Annie) and Memory (from Cats) became standards without having been hits. And Broadway producers, turning a tin ear to the lessons of Hair and Superstar, did little to lure younger songwriters -- Randy Newman, Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, Jim Steinman -- who might have brought the American musical into the age of rock. Or maybe it wouldn't have mattered, given the stodgily conservative tastes of Broadway's geezer audience. The Rocky Horror Show lasted less than a month in 1975. And Chess was a 1988 Broadway flop...
...stirring personal story or a dramatic comeback tale or at the very least a recent death in the family. NBC's latest contribution to the patriotic gush is a series of celebratory music videos -- among them, Marc Cohn warbling about swimming champ Pablo Morales, and D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince getting all rapped up in the Dream Team...
Precisely because it is the center of power in Arkansas, the city has long been resented. Jeff Davis, an enormously successful demagogue of the early century, always ran against Little Rock and kept declaring his independence of the place even when he had to live there as Governor. He tethered a goat on the Governor's lawn to show that his heart was still with the hill folks. He won his first term in office crusading against the construction of a capitol building in the city -- a new home for the despised politicians. The antipolitics of our own time...
...federal largesse, treating rural electrification as a plot against old local autonomy. When Winthrop Rockefeller gave $1.5 million to set up a model integrated school, on condition that local taxes take up the burden after five years, the school was allowed to close when its free run ended. Jeff Davis, after all, had tried to outlaw the education of Negroes, on the grounds that it ruined good field hands without creating intelligent citizens...