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...Check Your Head they lay down equal parts of spunk, punk and funk to retake some of their old turf while displaying a newfound respect for their musical elders. For the listener, the result is like looking at 30 years of pop music through the bottom of an empty beer bottle. Live at P.J.'s at times evokes a schmaltzy hotel lounge act. Elsewhere, Santana-like Latin percussion and '60s soul grooves join a pastiche of electronically altered vocals and jabbering wah-wah guitars. Songs like Finger Lickin' Good mix live instruments with electronically sampled sounds and fluid tempos -- "switching...
...struggles to take shape, there is something both stirring and a trifle chilling about the Perot campaign. The hopeful sincerity of his newfound supporters is a reminder of the latent idealism in the American character. But there is also a whiff of danger in the ease with which this billionaire with a mission has harnessed television imagery, telephone technology and voter disaffection to create a volatile force in the 1992 campaign...
...husband, a liberal politician who seeks to preserve the uneasy peace of the present even if it means suppressing the truth of the past. Although the setting is described as "probably" Chile, the play's polemics apply to a long, sad roster of other places where the price of newfound freedom is forceful forgetting. London critics have hailed a hard- edged production there as "grasping the pulse of the century...
...with the death of Dottie's Aunt Harriet, who spends her last moments on earth at a bargain basement clearance sale, Dottie inherits the money to make a new life. With this newfound freedom, Dottie moves her family from Queens to Manhattan and is off in pursuit of her dream...
...government may have offered them a clue late last week. The Commerce Department reported that newfound strength in consumer spending helped the nation's gross domestic product grow at an annual rate of 0.8% in the final three months of 1991, more than twice as fast as earlier estimates. While that number is still not much to cheer about, it does offer some evidence that Americans might be shaking off those recession blues. And the recovery, if it happens at all, will be something less than a surge...