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Because Harvard has a reputation as an educational leader, much of the educational community dutifully pays rapt attention to innovations at Harvard. And the new Core Curriculum, the first manor overhaul of Harvard's undergraduate education since the late '40, has accordingly brought record numbers of inquiries since the Faculty passed it last spring, even though there are still many wrinkles to be ironed...
Davis gives the role everything he has, which is both too much and not enough. Like Liza Minnelli, who was in rapt attendance on opening night, Davis is a claque person: his fans bestow upon him an adoring worship that outstrips the sum of his actual gifts. He is a passable dancer (though he does not dance in this show), his voice is only as strong as the mic it is hooked to, and an orphan out of Annie could match his acting. Like Minnelli, Davis projects the image of an overage child parched for affection, aggressively demanding approval...
What keeps these excursions along the wild side from being slumming expeditions is Reed's own rapt sympathy for the grifters, freaks and crooks who populate much of his music. Many of his songs are shot through with the kind of deadend romanticism that would stir Bruce Springsteen (who, in fact, appears unbilled and unannounced on Street Hassle, reciting the melancholy introduction to the third vignette). If Lou Reed gives no quarter in his music, neither does he yield to sensationalism or condescension. "You know," he sings in Street Hassle, "some people got no choice/ And they can never...
...generation, the educated young of the U.S. have been taught to deride or satirize the heroic. It is moving to watch their rapt attention at Terra Nova, for they are famished for models of honor. - T.E.K...
...barreled concert was to have been the feature attraction of a daylong festival celebrating the 28th anniversary of East Germany's birth as a Communist state. In one corner of East Berlin's huge Alexanderplatz, a Western-style rock group, Express Berlin, was performing before several hundred rapt young people. At the opposite end of the square, a Russian military band tootling patriotic marches competed unsuccessfully for the crowd's attention. Suddenly, the cacophony erupted into violence...