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Folksinger Nanci Griffith, visited a Cambridge store operated by UNICEF this weekend to help bring attention to the condition of the world's women and children...
Randy Travis has come a long way by respecting country music's traditions. Other acts out there, though, are raising a ruckus by tangling up those roots with all sorts of other music. Six signposts for this new country mile: Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, the O'Kanes, Nanci Griffith, K.T. Oslin and Lyle Lovett...
Love is a subject much considered by Nanci Griffith, 34, who likes to call herself "just a little folkabilly songwriter," and K.T. Oslin, who surprised everyone -- herself most of all -- by winning a Grammy in March for her hit RCA single 80's Ladies. It was from her first album, and Oslin is 46. "It's dreamlike," says Oslin, a sometime actress. "I feel like I'm playing the role of a country singer. But I'd rather be starting now than ending now." Both women were brought up in Texas; however, where Oslin's writing and performing are foursquare...
...those outlaws of the past decade, those rebels against the deep-shag songwriting of mainstream Nashville, have become the '80s Establishment. There is a new pack out there now. Travis and Crowell. Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith. K.T. Oslin and the O'Kanes and the supercharged Steve Earle. They are shaking all the wrinkles out of the music and ironing it into a different shape...
...program, available for more than three decades, this year has more than 100,000 students enrolled. Recently, the range of materials it distributes to make TIME a more effective teaching tool has been greatly expanded. Says Program Manager Nanci Silverman: "We want to make it easy for teachers to use the magazine as a textbook, or in any other way they wish." Media Management Services Inc., a management consulting firm in Yardley, Pa., surveyed thousands of teachers for their reactions to the program and suggestions for materials. As a result, new research, writing and vocabulary skill-building units have been...