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...however, eager for any opportunity to prop up sagging sales, record companies are rediscovering the appeal of black rock 'n' roll. Virgin Records has signed up neohippie Lenny Kravitz, whose latest record, Mama Said, has sold about 2 million copies worldwide. Sony Music produces Fishbone, seven musical renegades who have attracted a cult following with their energetic mix of rock, punk and funk. Elektra Records is pushing Eric Gales, 17, a wunderkind who leads a musically adventurous three-man band. Epic recently released a debut album by Eye & I, a genre-busting quintet propelled by the lusty vocals of female...
...crisis has forced Russia to spend scarce U.S. dollar reserves as well as other hard currencies to prop up the ruble. Its commercial exchange rate stood at 70 to the dollar last week, improved from 114 to the dollar the week before. Rumors that authorities may act to strengthen the ruble further have spread waves of panic buying, with Russians forming two-hour lines at banks to turn in dollars for their homegrown currency. At many banks last week, people found to their dismay that rubles were virtually unavailable...
Moment to Moment is playing at a theater with a seating capacity of perhaps no more than 35. It resembles a crowed prop room from a high school theatrical production. The stage is lower than the audience literally and figuratively. The hardwood seats become more noticeable in the course of the pathetic semblance of entertainment below...
...Afrocentrist claim can be summarized quite easily. It says the history of the cultural relations between Africa and Europe is bunk -- a prop for the fiction of white European supremacy. Paleohistorians agree that intelligent human life began in the Rift Valley of Africa. The Afrocentrist goes further: the African was the cultural father of us all. European culture derives from Egypt, and Egypt is part of Africa, linked to its heart by the artery of the Nile. Egyptian civilization begins in sub-Saharan Africa, in Ethiopia and the Sudan...
Previewing his State of the Union message next week, the President promised to create new jobs, prop up real estate values, help Americans with health- care costs and make the nation more competitive. His apology for declaring the recession over last summer was perhaps the shrewdest stroke. "I probably have made mistakes in assessing the fact that the economy would recover," he said. Such statements are designed to disarm voters who blame both Bush and Congress for the economic problems but blame Bush more. As one leading New Hampshire Republican put it, "Voters here are so unaccustomed to hearing...