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...mention musical innovations. A new, hot radio format has evolved to provide exposure for such urban dance-music acts as Soul II Soul and Lisa Stansfield. On television, MTV has grown from an exclusively rock-'n'-roll outlet to one that encompasses pop, soul, reggae and even disco. Like Madonna in her hit song Vogue, this generation knows how to "strike a pose." Eclecticism is supreme, as long as the show is authentic -- as camp, art or theater...
...learned her craft by singing along to tapes of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin, "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she explains, it's important to encourage Mikhail...
...terrace. Apparently Matisse was worried that Morosov would object to the use of a prostitute, since the central panels of Russian triptychs often contained figures of the Virgin Mary. But one can hardly doubt that the artist enjoyed the switch, and submissive Zorah does become a kind of Moroccan madonna...
DICK TRACY. Lovely to look at (seven gorgeously orchestrated colors), delightful to hear (three terrific Stephen Sondheim songs), a pleasure to sit through. Warren Beatty's take on the tec is funny but not facetious, and Madonna sizzles as a vamp chanteuse. Pssst! -- this girl could be big in movies...
Meanwhile, Madonna has some great lines ("Aren't you gonna frisk me?") and sports more than one outrageously sultry outfit (if you think the front of some of those dresses are something, wait til you see the backs of them!). But in the end, she, too, is disappointing, mainly because she plays a loser...