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Before that happens, though, there is still an enormous amount of work to do in Tomb 5. Archaeologists still haven't resolved many basic questions -- when the tomb was built, for example, and over what period of time it was used. Some answers could pop up as the excavations progress. Says Kitchen: "Let's hope the tomb yields a whole lot of new bodies. Then the medicos can get to work on them and find out what these princes were like, whether they had toothaches, how long they lived...
That's life according to the movies and the rest of a pop culture devoted to offering us emotionally reassuring clichas on a weekly basis. (A good current example is My Family, another immigrant saga, in which any seasoned moviegoer can foretell the fate of every character the minute he or she appears, as well as the shamelessly sentimental ending.) But life according to life is usually not so predictable. So, when you run into something like The Perez Family, a movie that is full of lifelike bestartlements but still comes out kind of nice in the end, you have...
...Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, a new pop opera by avant-garde composer John Adams, radical black poet June Jordan, iconoclastic director Peter Sellars and 26 urban-graffiti artists, raises an interesting question: Is it possible to be so politically correct that one becomes politically incorrect? Or to put it another way, Are some groups of people so inherently villainous that it is perfectly acceptable to stereotype, ridicule and otherwise bash them...
...well-off, too. He claims to have sent letters to every male undergraduate--that's over 3,000 of us--by U.S. Post. There were stamps on those letters, all seemingly uncancelled: that's 3,000 stamps at 32 cents a pop, totalling about $1,000! Mack: TAKE AN AD OUT IN THE CRIMSON! IT'S CHEAPER...
DIED. RAY MCKINLEY, 84, drummer, singer, and pop-orchestra maestro whose crossbreeding of boogie-woogie with Big Band gave birth to a string of hits, including the memorable musical command Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar; in Largo, Florida...