Word: music
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Latin music--qu'est-ce que c'est? That was the question on the minds of 300 people yesterday as they listened to musician David Byrne explain his recent foray into Afro-Brazilian rhythm...
Byrne, the lead singer of the Talking Heads, said his dissatisfaction with the disco music of the 1970s led him to the investigation of "tropicalismo" that culminated in Rei Momo, his new solo album and the compilation albums Beleza Tropical and O Samba...
...found that at the Latin Clubs I went to, the music was much better to dance to. It was live and I had a much better time...
...handful of images have themselves become part of history. These form a sort of shared visual heritage for the human race, a treasury of significant memories. Every educated person should be familiar with them, just as he or she would know the great achievements of painting, sculpture or music. And every person, educated or not, should be moved by these journalistic images, just as he or she would be by the masterpieces...
This week's childhood memory is of Little League. (Last week, it was my fear of not playing tackle football with the older kids on the block because then they would think I was some kind of classical music freak.) Everyone who has ever caught a baseball has Little League moments. Some of my friends still have those cheap, puny trophies with the miniature baseball player posing on top stored somewhere in their rooms. No one wants to forget...