Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weiner '88, Rob C. Hanning '88 and producer Matthew L. Snyder came up with an idea to produce a musical that combined the elements of drama and rap. Essentially Weiner and Hanning have combined the plots of West Side Story and The Emperor's New Clothes to create a modern rap/funk musical...
...else "a man of his village," notes Karl Frehsner, head coach of the Swiss men's team. And the village oompah band, for which Zurbriggen once played trumpet, quite rightly keeps him on its list of musicians. "That's what I really enjoy," he says. "Any music, except this modern rock stuff because there's no melody to it." He has a quick, shrewd intelligence -- "the mind of a businessman," states Frehsner approvingly -- and he is not at all fearful of the world. But he is rooted so solidly in Saas-Almagell that he is not thrown off-balance...
...power, as the truism goes, has its limits. In the concentric worlds that comprise modern New York, a character like Sherman McCoy is impotent should he venture beyond the insularity of chauffeur-driven cars and prepschool networks. Away from Wall Street, McCoy's life becomes the grist for other New York types, each one consumed by a drive for power. The gallery that Wolfe presents is compelling and yet predictable--his types are compiled from the people profiled in New York Magazine, Manhattan, Inc. and page six of the New York Post...
Themes for his songs include: the nuclear arms freeze, the importance of individuality and the disappearance of the institution of love in the modern world. "In order to write a good song it is necessary to take a personal experience that is seen as universal," Axelrod says...
...still undecided about what I'll study," said Weiss. "I am interested in modern European social history. I'm mainly looking forward to the opportunity to explore over there." During her vacations, Weiss would like to hike and cycle around Great Britain and France and to travel in India and the Middle East, she said...