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This time, though, Little Richard isn't boogieing into new musical territory but following in some unlikely footsteps: those of a rebel named Raffi. Raffi is the Canadian troubadour whose frisky tunes and kid-comfy lyrics sold 7 million copies of albums and videotapes during the early 1980s and transformed children's music from a backwater populated mainly by folk singers and people who performed preachy songs in funny voices into a booming business. Raffi has since retired from entertaining the peanut-butter-and-jelly crowd, but major record labels and musicians of every persuasion, from rock to reggae...
Each moment, from Willie's pathetic scheming about his girlfriend to self- denying Raffi's declaration that he is secretly "Laurence Olivier's lovechild" to Javier's strikingly forgiving meditations in his wheelchair, seems at once the dramatic high point and the pivotal piece of evidence in explaining this deranged yet oddly delightful family. In the end, it turns out that the entire piece is, as little Miggy brags his life will be, "Spic- tacular...
...that the elected leaders of the enclave's self-declared government participate in all negotiations. Azerbaijan does not recognize Karabakh's leaders or its demands for independence. "Nagorno-Karabakh risks entering a new phase of all-out conflict that could possibly draw in other states," warned Armenian Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian, referring to the competition between Turkey and Iran for influence in the region. To avoid that, he said, "there must be a simultaneous dispatch not only of international observers but of peacekeeping troops...
...addition to the displays, the Children's Museum houses some great shopping spots. The museum shop itself is cool--it stocks the complete collection of Raffi in Concert tapes--but it's not the coolest. That distinction is left to The Recycle, which introduces kids to environmentally-aware, conservation-conscious consumerism...
PROFILE Balladeer Raffi chants a new tune: Baa Baa Mother Earth...