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...midst of 20th-century pop culture mania, when sincerity in music is at an all-time low, it's almost like a breath of fresh air when we encounter seriousness in modern music. We're baffled by a singer who believes there is truth in what she sings. We are utterly mystified when confronted with a theme other than teen euphoria or angst. And so Janice Robinson's debut album, The Color Within Me, may well be, unabashedly, the subject of our confusion. Robinson's rock/pop, soul/gospel/funk roots fuse together to produce a sound that blends the mainstream appeal...
...WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Experimental student theater at its best with digital remastering, space age costumes and electronic mania...
While The Big Test provides a well-articulated, in depth view of the cultural history leading to today's SAT-mania and reward-based educational system, however, Lemann's conclusions are not entirely satisfactory...
...could play along at home. The downside? ABC only scheduled it as a two week filler. They'll bring it back for November sweeps, of course, but the other networks will throw everything but the kitchen sink into the mix in order to capitalize on Game Show Mania. Want to know how desperate NBC is? They're pulling "Twenty One"--yup, the game show documented in Quiz Show that was infamously fixed--as a ratings gimmick. Let's hope that they don't get Kathie Lee to host that...
...website and a movie deal and earned them millions of dollars, prefer to view their books' appeal in less secular terms. "People," says LaHaye, "are beginning to realize that something in this world is happening that has never happened before. The technology is going out of sight, one-world mania seems to be gripping the world." A self-described "prophecy scholar" and minister for more than 50 years, LaHaye, 73, concerns himself less with the books' prose than with their biblical underpinnings, turning ancient references to plagues and famines, wars and storms into crisp, modern plot points. "I prepare...