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...song seems to lose some of its texture and color, but the live setting allows the jam at the end of the song to flourish into a true rocker. Anastasio seized the opportunity and delivered a blistering but passionate solo. Closing out the second set with the crowd-pleaser "Golgi Apparatus," a tune Anastasio wrote in eight grade, Phish had the throngs of prep school kids singing along to the chorus "I saw you with a ticket stub in your hand...

Author: By Ramsay Ravenel, | Title: Phishin' in the Woods | 7/15/1994 | See Source »

Kennedy, the consummate crowd-pleaser, even addressed the audience in Spanish, says Marcelina Santiago, president of Catholic University in Ponce...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Kennedys Raise Campaign Funds in Exotic Locales | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...that was the only tip they could manage to get). FM sat watching this debacle for a good half-hour, chortling away in our private mirth before we called our imminently dependable (and totally hush-hush) source. Within minutes, FM found out that the speaker, while neither a crowd-pleaser or a woman, was our Vice President Al Gore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take the G-Train | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...with It is no movie masterpiece. The picture's canvas is so broad (40 years), and its depiction of Ike's brutality so encyclopedic, that it sometimes plays like a Greatest Hits package in which all the songs sound alike. But the film will be a crowd pleaser and a curative because Tina Turner has lent it the voltage of her star presence and the joltage of her awful, exemplary life. The concert stage was where she could release, through her primal art, all the anguish inside her. It was also the cage Ike kept her in, shackled by duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aye, Tina! | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...poster says: "Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard. Music by Andre Previn." But don't expect a Broadway crowd pleaser. Rough Crossing isn't really a musical. It's not really by Tom Stoppard either. But billing aside, the production at Quincy House is an enjoyable rendition of an intelligent farce...

Author: By Ann M. Mikkelsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diamond in the Rough | 1/15/1993 | See Source »

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