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...good news is the eponymous Del Amitri (Chrysalis). At first glance, these four Scotsman would seem to fit in with the U2 Alarm mode of loud banal political folk songs. This debut effort abounds with youthful metaphors about pollution and nuclear war and all the things that are so gosh--wrong with this world. Most of the time these societal barbs are more embarassing than effective. All of this only goes to prove that it takes time to learn how to write lyrics. Fortunately, the ultimate success of Del Amitri does not depend on its words but rather its presentation...
Certainly the Senator had been in a go mode. His fund-raising political- action committee was active, he traveled and gave interviews that encouraged attention to his likely candidacy, and his staffers seemed almost certain that he would run. But the old scandals and family problems were certain to be raised anew: just this fall, a widely publicized book about his former wife Joan had criticized Kennedy as an unfeeling husband. Kennedy's sister Jean Smith, whose advice he highly regards, advised against another race. Politicians he consulted around the country were friendly but unreassuring. A final and perhaps paramount...
...contrast, the American avant-garde appears largely to have conquered the angst that it felt during the '60s. It has lost much of its rebelliousness, but in so doing has discovered a more delicate mode of expression as well as a broader popular base. To refine and succeed is not necessarily to become complacent or sell out. The crucial thing for any style is to avoid both self- satisfaction and self-parody, to keep the visions fresh. If The Juniper Tree is any indication, the American avant-garde is alive and well, just a little older and wiser...
...Dinners we believe students should be left on their honor. Few students really get wasted on sherry or one bottle of wine split between six people at a dinner table. And alcohol consumption at these functions is usually at its most sedate, formal and sociable--not its raucous party mode...
...spectre is haunting Harvard College, one that threatens to disrupt equal access to the means of production—the spectre of personal computers. Like the typewriter of the last generation, preeminent mode of production. Because of its prohibitive price, however, only the more wealthy can acquire...