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...here? Isn't this a Saturday night? Isn't this a dormitory? And don't 250 students live here? So where is everybody? Where is the party, the beer, the music? At least there should be some music! Over in the common room some guy is playing the piano and upstairs some other guy is doing a Gregorian chant, but c'mon! Where are the tunes? Where is the Springsteen? Who are these people? But of course...they're first and second-year med students...
...analogous dangers in the robot revolution. If robots can do men's work faster, better and more cheaply, then what will men do? They will be retrained for other things, the robotmakers answer. But by whom, and for what? Almost 20 years ago, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano portrayed a future society in which the elite few run the machines while the unemployable majority subsists on handouts in resentful idleness. "It's an enormous problem," concedes Luigi Lazzaroni, president of the Italian firm that makes the Pragma robot. "Many will have to learn how to work differently...
...with I'm the Man, the songs on Beat Crazy form an almost unbroken whole; a tune hardly has the chance to fade before another sneaks in. He perfects his delivery on "One to One". The ballad begins with a single organ chord, grows into a piano piece on loss of individuality, and recedes to its original chord. Thus, without breaking his train of musical thought, Jackson draws us into his musical continuum...
...aspiring actress could get off the bus from Utah in the morning and star in a Broadway show by night, you knew your true love the moment you met him--or so Dames at Sea would have us believe. Nothing's wrong with that; any show where the piano on stage keeps playing after the piano player's stood up to sing knows just how silly it's being. Dames at Sea, written in the sixties, spoofs thirties musical comedy conventions in a finely polished and very funny production. But one sequence leaves a bad taste: outdated assumptions are appealing...
...pigs, harnesses the team, plows the field, gathers the harvest, saddles the horse, rides the range, drives the car, cuts the wood, mows lawns, picks cotton, reads novels, dates girls, sweeps the house, mops the kitchen, boy scouts, plays sports, deerhunts with his father, goes to dances, practices the piano, sings in the choir, plays in the orchestra, attends school, travels widely, and engages in sundry other activities...