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KEITH JARRETT: STILL LIVE (ECM). Ravishing standards like Come Rain or Come Shine and upbeat thrillers like Charlie Parker's Billie's Bounce: dazzling jazz piano from one of the best...
...Salesman, for example, uses the prism of salesmanship to capture the petty expectations of my parents' generation. Over the years, the travelling salesman has vanished from the cultural landscape, as abruptly as a stern shut of the front door. But the image of getting by on "shoe-shine and a smile," as Miller wrote, still remains. Tom Wolfe, today's Class Day speaker, is in part responsible for updating that American classic...
...government is devoted to the protection of minorities. It's another thing altogether for the Supreme Court, a governmental check meant to protect the rights of minorities, to be stripping away the rights of minorities to protect themselves against job discrimination. Here the Reagan Administration's true colors shine clear...
Also successful are the efforts of Sandra Vinton, who plays Sophia, the Zubriskys' sweet, beautiful and hideously moronic daughter. And in more minor roles, Jon Hill and Alexander Pak shine. As Leon Tolchinsky, the town's newly-arrived schoolmaster, Sherwin Parikh is perhaps not quite as convincing. At times, he emerges as almost too slick and too polished for his part...
...Saturday at MIT's Alumni Pool, it was the Engineers' turn to shine, as they pulled out a 7-6 victory. MIT rode on this momentum to win the MIT Invitational Tournament...