Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barker Center, an airy, modern home for the humanities departments, is dedicated in the old Freshman Union building...
Usually when a comedian speaks with great seriousness about his art, he is either being totally insincere or has fallen victim to a modern cliche, the clown who's laughing on the outside and thinking on the inside. In the case of Shandling, though, the sentiments seem both authentic and well considered. It's not always true, as the shibboleth holds, that the best comedy grows out of characters, not jokes, but the characters on Larry Sanders really are what make it so funny. The one-liners, the self-mocking guest stars, the setting so rich in hypocrisy--these would...
...bland pop fare ruling American radio and the once popular Lollapalooza tour falling by the wayside, this year's Africa Fete offers a compelling summer alternative. "The attraction is that this is some of the most exciting music on the planet," says Blackwell. "It's ancient and it's modern at the same time. There are rhythms and sounds here that you will hear nowhere else in America." For the performers it's a chance to reach a potentially huge new audience. Mursal speaks Somali, Arabic, Danish and only a little English, but when asked if she's excited...
Abandoning his studied neutrality, Quart eventually performs a priestly act that saves Our Lady of the Tears, but at the cost of his ecclesiastical career. In doing so, the priest, who imagines himself a kind of modern Knight Templar, finds his true self by breaking through the armor of discipline and obedience that has served him as a surrogate for faith...
DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...