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...millions of rock fans, and MTV pre-empted its usual programming for hours of J.F.K.-like mourning, with a somber Kurt Loder playing the Walter Cronkite role. Given Cobain's talent and influence, however, the reaction was understandable. Nirvana came from the music-industry equivalent of nowhere, with a rough-edged first album recorded for a chiselly $606. The next, Nevermind, released 2 1/2 years ago, contained a series of crunching, screaming songs that also had catchy melodies, part punk, part Beatles. Selling almost 10 million copies and knocking Michael Jackson's Dangerous from the top of the charts...
...game characterized on both sides by rough, physical play, ugly goals and as many infractions as would make the Oklahoma football program blush, the Crimson gave birth yesterday to a teeth-gritting 10-7 win over 16th-ranked and previously-unbeaten Vermont at Ohiri Field...
...rough week ahead of us, That's for sure," Porter said. "it's possible that we could lose all three, but we're pretty confident. We're playing well right now--it will be nice to see where we fit in with some of the best teams in the country...
...lovable bunch of ragtag Indians. In their new-found fame, the players have forgotten the humble roots that gave them their grit and winning quality. It's the dilemma posed by the American dream: how to move from rags to riches while still holding onto the down-to-earth, rough but honest rags that made the riches first possible...
However, if there was any justice in the world, the name Piazzolla would have a secure place in the pantheon of twentieth-century musical masters. And this three-CD collection of Piazzolla's American Clave recordings (Tango: Zero Hour, from 1986, The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night, from 1987 and La Camorra: La Soledad De La Provocacion Apasionada from 1989; the set is distributed through Cambridge's very own Rounder Records) serves as a beautiful testament to Piazzolla's genius, featuring almost three hours of some of the most haunting, searching, intensely emotional music of this century...