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Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual, for anyone without access to electric entertainment of any form, has become the first debut album in history to rack up four top-five singles. Name those tunes and, very likely, you can sing a chorus, along with all the Lauper loopies who cover the age spectrum, from dress-alike five-year-olds to grannies gone groovy: All Through the Night; She Bop, which inverted Gene Vincent's classic Be-Bop-a-Lula into a thoroughly unapologetic paean to female autoeroticism; Time After Time; and Girls Just Want to Have Fun, a kind...
...shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like Dad. I'll fly abroad and bring back presents." Another girl revealed that after she married a biologist, "we'd buy a piano and sing all day long. We'd buy a Scottish sheepdog and two cockatoos." One of her schoolmates shared the happy thought that "I wouldn't work but I'd get paid just the same . . . I'd also like to have lots of different things, dresses for every day of the week, to have...
Professor Kilson demonstrates how out of touch he is with Black students, both at Harvard Radcliffe and around the country, Harvard Radcliffe and around the country. He fails to realize that Black students who sing in Kuumba gospel concerts, participate in Association of Black Radcliffe Women cultural show, organic classes in Swahili, or perform plays with Black C.A.S.T.-enrich the cultural and social life of the entire University. These students help educate as to the fact that the university, like the real world, is great quilt of diverse patterns and colors, held together by the common thread of the learning...
...what the show lacks in standout talent, it makes up in overall quality. With creative choreography and a troupe that can sing and even dance--together, the group scenes are everything a drag musical about witches is supposed to be. Even the faithful kickline gets a creative in this year's show--not to mention that the legs even approximate unison. Of course, the stunningly lavish sets and costumes--which make Loeb mainstage show, look like church theatricals--do their part...
...film, Anderson's free-associating view of American materialism was marked by both wry humor (I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on another planet, goes one section) and an imaginative use of technology: with a device called a Vocoder, she can speak and sing in chords. Anderson's unsettling imagery and aggressively minimalist music hardly make for relaxing listening, but United States is a landmark in the art of the '80s, a guided tour through a post-punk apocalypse led by an innocent at home whose sense of the ironic is the only sure...