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This week's agreement to refrain from such personal attacks in future elections is long overdue, but Egan and Reardon should still be commended for their change of heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cause for Hurrah? | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

...record-company executives are crooning the same refrain. At Polygram, vice president Richard Seidel is overseeing a new "Brazilian Wave" series that includes anthology albums for a number of major Brazilian pop stars. Celluloid, an independent U.S. label, has launched a subsidiary called Braziloid, dedicated to musica popular brasileira, a term used by Brazilians to refer to the country's diverse contemporary sounds. CBS Records is promoting Brazilian stars like Djavan and Rio de Janeiro-born vocalist Milton Nascimento as pop acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Old Seducer Returns | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Bomba/Mozambique beat with somewhat depressing Spanish/English lyrics that reflect on the impossibility of dreams and humanity: "And they were imagining Roses/As if life itself were a dream/Is a gift not a reason for living?/Not enough, not enough, so it seems." The chorus then switches to Spanish with the refrain: "Brinde a la Rosa/Y al hombre que no vive/Perdido en un sueno/en un atmosfera imposible," reflecting again the hopelessness of illusion...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Byrning Hot Salsa | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

Earlier yesterday, 18 Lutheran Church leaders issued an appeal in East Berlin calling on East Germany's communist government to approve broad democratic reforms and urging all sides to refrain from violence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 70,000 East Germans Rally for Democracy | 10/10/1989 | See Source »

...lyrics. Typical is "No Souvenirs," the first cut of the album that allows Etheridge's voice to range from melodic ballad to a bluesy rap: like most of the rest of the album, however, it follows a standard pattern of alternating a slow, mournful verse with a fast, angry refrain...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Love's Labor Won | 10/6/1989 | See Source »

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