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...past our magazine has been very critical of the House of Blues, especially because of the appalling shortage of genuine blues artists the organization presents at its clubs. If, however, as you state, the company has managed to resurrect the legendary Muddy Waters, who passed away in 1983, please inform it that all is forgiven. And a table for two, please, close to the band. RICH and SHARON SCHNEIDER Blues Beat Lewiston, New York...
...hard," yet jumped in as soon as the televangelists started quoting Scripture: "Is it going to be possible to get through an interview with both of you without you wrapping yourselves in the Bible?" To Michael Dukakis, who persisted in giving bland responses during an interview meant to resurrect his failing presidential campaign, Koppel blurted: "With all due respect, let me suggest to you, I still don't think you get it." ("I was inviting the candidate to slap me down," he recalls. "And I couldn't imagine why he didn't.") And this was his elegant response...
This means that, while he didn't dare speak out on behalf of persecuted writers like Babel, Mandelstam or Anna Akhmatova during the Stalin years, Ehrenburg worked assiduously to resurrect their reputations in the more lenient Khrushchev period. As Rubinstein documents, Ehrenburg used his position as the Soviet writer best known to the Western intelligentsia in order to blackmail the censors: he would repeatedly announce the publication of a controversial book or article, then protest that its failure to appear due to censorship would reflect badly on the Soviet regime in the West...
When 16 years of civil war finally ended in 1990, Lebanon began to resurrect itself with astonishing success. Tourists returned for the cuisine and Roman ruins. Foreign firms vied for contracts to rebuild highways, power plants and the Beirut commercial district. Last January electricity became available 24 hours a day, for the first time in two decades. Then two weeks ago, the lights went out as Israeli F-16 fighters rocketed power plants east of the capital as part of a major bombardment of the Lebanese countryside. The damage done by the Israeli onslaught was especially bitter for a country...
...attempt to resurrect George Michael is being watched closely in the industry. Last year DreamWorks SKG bought out his contract from Sony for $40 million and gave him a $12 million, two-record deal. Michael was famously unhappy at Sony, claiming that the label had not supported what he saw as his musical maturation. He sued to get out of the contract, lost, refused to record for Sony anyway and eventually worked out his deal with DreamWorks. The former Wham! singer's first single for Dreamworks, Jesus to a Child, is rather solemn but is starting to get some airplay...