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...election trail with some consistency for nearly a year, and by last week the entourages of journalists far outnumbered the candidates and their traveling staffs. News personnel aboard the bus (or plane or van) can enjoy intimacy with a potential President: John Glenn, for example, has led a group sing-along of gospel and folk tunes, and shakes hands with the regulars at the end of a swing. But at every stop, the journalists are faced with a candidate's standard speech, the same jokes, the same badinage, and must try to turn them into news. As ABC Correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The View from the Bus | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

This contradiction also serves to highlight Husker Du's major message: don't trust or look for answers in any music (even in Metal Circus), but rather look within yourself. For instance, in the first song on the EP, Mould states, "You can sing any song you want but you're still the same," thus denying the idea that music can or should after people's lives. In fact, this song reveals Husker Du's message and ideals more clearly than any other on the album. Behind the fast, clean guitar line which draws the listener into the album...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Force of Will | 2/10/1984 | See Source »

Football and bigotry seem to go hand in hand among some West German youth gangs. Fans for Dortmund's Borussia soccer team regularly sing Nazi songs and chant Heil, Hitler! in the stands and terrorize immigrants after matches. At pressent, 37 members of the group are being investigated on charges of racial incitement, theft, assault and breach of the peace. When West Germany played Turkey last November in a qualifying match for this year's European championships, police posted 6,000 men at West Berlin's Olympic stadium. Turkish shops were given special protection after neo-Nazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Rising Racism on the Continent | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

This poses a problem that MacDermot and his librettist, WilliamDumaresq, never quite overcome. Indomitability is all very well, but a concept cannot sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Bluesy Hymn to Sturdy Values | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Casting, which takes place in December, is the next ingredient in the makeup of a Pudding show. This year's tryouts, according to the actors, were widely attended and "very intense." The Pudding hopefuls must be able to act, dance, sing, and some, in addition, must have a certain feminine charm. Most have had acting and singing experience in high school and at Harvard. The selected cast, which numbers 16, is nearly all first-timers to the show, a situation unprecedented in the Theatricals, which usually relies on returning veterans of previous shows to fill the ranks of its requisite...

Author: By Mary K. Warren, | Title: The Feminine Mystique | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

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