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...commencement ceremonies last June, President Derek C. Bok told the assembled multitude of his "Faustian cycle" of nightmares, in which a slick New York banker urges him to sell the University off bit by bit in return for millions of dollars in new funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRE vs. Students | 10/4/1989 | See Source »

BRANFORD MARSALIS: TRIO JEEPY (Columbia). Some nice moments (The Nearness of You, Gutbucket Steepy), but let's face it: slick imitations of Bird, Coltrane and Ben Webster do not a jazz genius make. Forget the liner-note hype, Jeepy, and come back when you've paid some dues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 18, 1989 | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...felt often, now, as if he were out in the middle of a foggy sound, in a weathered boat, with an old radio that kept drifting from station to station. To be sure, there was a lot of new stuff on. Madonna: slick and smart. Rap: angry, slangy and assaultive, good and righteous, but restrictive in its heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rolling Stones: Roll Them Bones | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...been put snugly into that Woodstock pasture. Rock reacted by turning inward, to the softer personal speculations of the '70s singer-songwriters, then reacted again, first by exploding (punk), then by chilling out into the cerebrations of the New Wave bands like the Talking Heads and the slick, slightly spooky amusement-park soul of Michael Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rolling Stones: Roll Them Bones | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...Italian actors gesturing rambunctiously, speaking with cotton candy in their mouths, plotting elaborate revenge with dim-bulbed resources. Cast Peter Falk as Dino Capisco, a dapper ) don just sprung from Sing Sing. Give him a score to settle with his weaselly partner Carmine Tarantino (Michael V. Gazzo) and a slick, Rudolph Giuliani- style D.A. (Bob Gunton) with an eye to nailing Dino's hide on the front page. Saddle him with a dog-stealing wife (Brenda Vaccaro) and a devoted but ditsy mistress (Dianne Wiest). And do make sure his life finally depends on the skeptical love and untested intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Came The Don | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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