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...MORE IMPORTANT strain of military-minded popular music has cowered passively before the prospect of world war, not promoted it with a whoop and a shout. New wave music, with its hypnotic repetition, machine noises and nihilism, had always rejected a rosy view of the future in favor of visions of chaos and destruction. But "Life During Wartime," the Talking Heads' 1979 hit, was the first indication that New Wave music dealing in the particulars of war not only could be popular, but seemed to satisfy some collective hunger of the public imagination...
...Specials album, framing it at start and finish, is their cover and reprise of an old song titled, "Enjoy Yourself--It's Later Than You Think." If that melancholy note wasn't enough, their "Man from C & A" spells the point out plainly: it opens with a shout of "Warning, Warning, Nuclear Attack," and its simple ska beat is punctuated with machine-gun fire and high explosives...
...actors frequently shout to be heard, which serves to exaggerate the difference in age between them and their roles. Ralph Zito turns the twisted, self-centered Serebriakov into a buoyant, strapping cartoon villain. When Vanya charges him with ruining his life in their third-act confrontation, Zito rushes across the platforms to the other side of the house, breathing heavily and staring over the audience like a character in melodrama who can't face the awful truth. But the horror of Serebriakov is that he is too full of himself to begin to understand what Vanya is talking about. Instead...
...strengths and weaknesses of huge reference works like the New Grove will take years to judge. But Macmillan is already planning Grove 7. Though it may be too early to shout encore! it is reassuring to know that Sadie and his band will play...
...longer gather in all the world's wealth, leaving whole continents ravaged. Abdnor, Dan Quayle, Steve Symms--these men subscribe to the Reagan "placed here between two great oceans" theory of the American mission. To the scientists who predict that pollution, and overproduction, and depletion spell disaster, the Republicans shout Pollution is From Trees. There are New Sources. We Can Get America Moving Again. Just step on the clutch and put it in reverse...