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Mund's dissonant chording introduced "Future Boy," a short and volatile tune that showcased Deal's ability to convey the aggression that became a Breeder's hallmark. In keeping with the evening's quirkiness, Mund brought out a Fisher-Price xylophone for "Stripper," an irreverent waltz sung in an humorously...

Author: By John T. Reuland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The New Deal: From Riches to Rags | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

Times writing can still be fusty and stilted, with a prim overreliance on the adjective clear. ("Term limits have been successful at bringing new faces into politics. Less clear is whether they're making any practical difference.") And when the paper tries to get hip, the results can be just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST GREAT NEWSPAPER | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

FACETIOUSNESS. Jokiness is the current handmaiden of brutality. Violent death provides the punch line for the two-hour string of gags that is the modern action movie. And when the stars aren't killing off the supporting players, they are cracking wise--lamely. All right, nobody goes to hear an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE DUMB SUMMER | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

It's been only four months since she was sworn in, but already American diplomacy is feeling the Albright touch. Her interpreters spend more time sitting silently; during a Paris visit, she conducted her meeting with Foreign Minister Herve de Charette in French, one of five languages she speaks. Her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALBRIGHT TOUCH | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

Fagles made special effort in his translation to avoid the old-fashioned type of stilted, impenetrable rendering that forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: A Fitting Toast to the Teller of Tales | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

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