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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week a Dirty Dancing concert revue comes to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, with a brace of nostalgically inclined singers and a bevy of pelvicly primed dancers. After eight shows at Radio City, the concert will head out to 65 cities in the heartland. "How many people here under 20?" shouts Bill Medley, once a Righteous Brother and now the revue's closing act, before jumping into (I've Had) The Time of My Life, his hit theme from the movie. His question gets a good roar from the crowd. "How many over 20?" Another roar. The show...
...Dirty Dancing concert tour might be just another oldies show if it were not for the fact that the record business has already scoped out a trend that goes beyond recycling oldies. Producers are trying to realchemize the sound of early '60s pop with singers too young to know the decade by anything but rumor and parental reminiscence. Tiffany, a 17-year-old singer from Norwalk, Calif., had a surprise No. 1 hit last year with her version of the Tommy James and the Shondells 1967 hit I Think We're Alone Now. Tiffany, who concertized in shopping malls...
...weeks leading up to the millennial celebration, the government of Mikhail Gorbachev made an effort to signal its tolerance and even show some enthusiasm for Christianity. The General Secretary has, for instance, taken to lacing his speeches with references to the lives of Jesus Christ or John the Baptist. And in a remarkable pronouncement, the Soviet news agency TASS declared on June 4 that Russian Orthodoxy "expounds love and mercy and denounces idleness and money grubbing and inculcates in people high moral standards, which are needed in our socialist society...
...determination to bare the scandal, Congress granted immunity to all the defendants except Secord. That means their testimony cannot be used against them in a trial. But since the four are charged with conspiracy, each defendant has the right to use statements of his coconspirators that might show his own innocence. Last week Gesell ruled that the way out of this dilemma is to hold four trials. A jury thus could listen to immunized testimony that might help the defendant on trial in one case, while this testimony could not be used in the trial of the man who gave...
...events that turned her into a fugitive. Nothing could have made the trio happier than the spectacle of police charging into the Ebenezer Baptist Church to capture her. Sharpton, 33, a minister-at-large with a rock-star haircut and a vituperative style, gave voice to their fantasy. "Show the nation the moral beast you are," he challenged the attorney general. "Come through these doors and arrest her." But police made no moves at Ebenezer church or the Brooklyn church to which the mother later shifted...