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...FEEL LIKE summertime, but it sure sounds and looks like Stingtime. The Police(front)mar, is everywhere--gracing rock mag covers (and even GQ)--to proclaim the release of his first solo album to the world. The media barrage comes with the golden-boy territory, but Sting's musical and acting endeavors have, with the exception of the Dune debacle, always justified the hype. Unfortunately, The Dream of the Blue Turtles is less than a revelation. The album certainly is no nightmare, but there's plenty of Sting and not much bite...
...looks back on it now, shakes his head. "Being from California, at Harvard, is a trick," says the California kid. But that's not the whole story. He has, over four years, come to incorporate the stereotypes of the Harvard Mar and the California Kid, and wears both hats with equal ease...
...Federal Government. It is the country's largest single builder, printer and design client for objects as various as power dams, monuments and postage stamps. The looks and liveliness of Government buildings often determine the vitality of town squares and city centers. Federal highways and public works enhance or mar the American landscape. The appearance of Government signs, pamphlets and questionnaires can make life easy or irritating for citizens...
...halls usually take some time before they sort themselves out acoustically: at first hearing it appears that the Ordway's sound, designed by Acoustician R. Lawrence Kirkegaard of Chicago, is rich and clear, and not plagued by the spottiness and dullness that first afflicted Davies Hall and continues to mar the contemporaneous Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto...
Broad-shouldered, bushy-eyebrowed Julio María Sanguinetti, 48, bounded to the platform in the cavernous assembly hall of Montevideo's Colorado Party headquarters and gave a cheering crowd of election-night supporters the good news. "The verdict of the polls indicates we are the majority," he said. "We will not be an arrogant majority. We will have republican humility." With that pledge, President-elect Sanguinetti marked Uruguay's return to civilian government after eleven years of military rule...