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...always interesting. That is in contrast to most academics, who are always right and not very interesting. " In his books or off the cuff, on the lecture platform or sitting across from Johnny Carson, Sagan has a distinctive gift for expressing scientific notions vividly and with infectious enthusiasm. A sampler of the sayings of Sagan...
...Warner Brothers) Troublemakers is the latest entry in the Brothers Warner annual line of low-priced sampler LPs available only by mail order. This year's model focuses on punk/new wave performers and their early Seventies antecedents and it's a typically uneven collection of bona-fide gems, collectibles and curiosities for cult fanatics, and the old product-pushing hustle...
...subject now is a mixed bag of British and American writers, ranging from Joseph Conrad and Saul Bellow to Rider Haggard and Mary McCarthy. This choice seems random, and indeed it was largely dictated by the books that came to Pritchett for review. The result is a sampler rather than a thesis, and none the worse for that. It is much more fun to be treated than lectured...
...wave boom and crash is Lydia Lunch, the former mastermind of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Teenage Jesus made the messiest, most agonizing and most chilling no wave noises of them all. They broke up a couple months back, leaving several singles, an appearance on the Eno sampler, a ridiculously short album, and the memories of scores of New York gigs. Lunch recently resurfaced. She now fronts an aggregation known as 8--Eyed Spy, and the New York cognoscenti are ecstatic. She has landed a solo contract with ZE/Buddah records, the home of the Contortions, and her first album with...
...Longworth may indeed have been the most caustic critic of Washington celebrities in her own long lifetime. A sampler...