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Gore too will probably join the fray. He predicts a "long, hard fight," and he proved in 1988 that he can give as good as he gets. In fact, it was Mr. Straight himself who first struck at the Massachusetts prison-furlough program, which the Republicans then spun into the infamous Willie Horton commercials. And now that the people who brought us Willie Horton are back with a new anti-Clinton ad campaign, this cycle's candidate is signaling clearly that he won't pull a Dukakis and roll over without a fight. Clinton told TIME he is "not surprised...
Imagine a symphony at once brooding and luminous, tragic and triumphant, spun from a single unending melody in three long, seamless slow movements. Here it is, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" by HENRYK GORECKI, newly released on Elektra Nonesuch, with David Zinman conducting soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta. The tenebrous string texture is punctuated by Upshaw's ethereally intoning a 15th century Polish lament and, later, a mother's dirge for her murdered son, whose words were inscribed in 1944 on the wall of a Gestapo prison. The result is chilling, moving, unique. With the collapse of communism...
...local promoter had him record The Coldest Rap in 1982, which led to deejay stints around L.A., including shows at the now defunct Radio dance club downtown. For $50 a week, Ice-T spun the records and rapped to mostly white crowds. "I had this double identity," he says. "Deejaying for trendy kids on the weekends, and doing the dirt on the street the rest of the time...
...vast: Continent-wide. Set on a German train rumbling through the rubble of World War II -- but suggesting the recent chaos of post-communist Europe -- Zentropa plays like a hallucinogenic remake of The Third Man. A naive American, Leo (Jean-Marc Barr), walks into a web of political duplicity spun by a desperate provocateuse (Barbara Sukowa), a cynical Allied officer (Eddie Constantine) and lots of supporting sharks and werewolves. And where is Harry Lime, the charming, murderous third man? Everywhere. Everyone has something to prove or hide -- everyone but Leo. Which makes him, in the movie's seen...
...supposed goat--which students spun on aspit in the Dunster courtyard--was really a lamb,according to House Master Karel F. Liem...