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MUSIC . . . MERCURY FALLING: More than 20 years into his career as a pop artist, Sting has managed to stay relevant -- and popular -- by continuing to create gently innovative music that borrows from other sources so wisely and so well that the resulting sound is truly his own. His new album, 'Mercury Falling,' draws on country, gospel and even Celtic music to create smooth, genre-blending, articulate pop. "It is another bright entry into what has proved to be his brilliant career as a solo artist," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "'Mercury Falling' stands out as his most consistently entertaining...
...regular season finale for the Ancient Eight crown and a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Playing on its home floor, the Crimson fell to an inspired Big Green team which played far beyond expectations. While the loss hurt badly, it was the scene afterwards that put the sting in Harvard's wound...
...sting of those dismissals sharpened as Jordan's King Hussein slowly turned his back on the Iraqis. When they first arrived, the King warmly embraced them, putting them up in one of his guesthouses. Later, he moved them to one of his palaces. But as the months passed a chill set in, and in October the government asked the families to vacate their opulent digs to make room for other guests. The Iraqis were moved into more modest accommodations on the way to the airport...
...play a fully convincing makeover. Pop culture, it complains, forces us to manufacture ourselves in the stylized image of our own mass-produced fantasies. The blatant phoniness of this predigested psychobabble is underscored by the soundtrack (imagine--a play with a soundtrack!), which features such luminaries as Sting, U2, Live, and Counting Crows. Despite its occasional flashes of loveliness, "Savage Love" limps along ponderously, bloated by the ostentation of the same culture that it attempts to parody--and, ultimately, fails to escape...
...company didn't use burger-chain tie-ins or Massimo Troisi dolls to merchandise the picture, but it did sell 30,000 copies of the 1985 Antonio Skarmeta novel on which the film is based, and another 25,000 books of Neruda poetry. A CD of stars like Sting, Madonna and Wesley Snipes reading Neruda was later sent to Academy members with a videocassette of the film, as was a note telling them that Il Postino was ineligible for the foreign-language Oscar because the Italians had not offered it for nomination. If Academy voters wanted to honor the film...