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...Stray Cats, Men at Work, and Adam Ant are hardly familiar names to most people over 30. Yet they are among the leaders in the revival of pop music. After a four-year slump, sales of records and tapes have begun heading up again. Says David Geffen, head of Geffen Records, one of the most successful firms: "This is going to be a good season. Things are finally starting to turn around...
...ancient stargazers, comets (from the Greek for hairy star) were signs of heavenly displeasure. Actually, they are stray bits of debris, largely ice and dust, left over from the formation of the sun and its family of planets nearly 5 billion years ago. Skywatchers around the world got a rare chance last week to view such a dirty celestial snowball close up, at least by astronomical standards. The surprise visitor from deep space swept to within 2.9 million miles of earth, the nearest approach by a comet in two centuries...
Inevitably, a few of these more artless trinkets stray into kitsch. But for the most part, suggests A. Kenneth Snowman, jeweler by appointment to the royal family and guest curator for the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition, they should be judged by the affable spirit in which [they] were originally created-an uncomplicated desire to give pleasure, albeit within the framework of an efficiently organized business house." Another scholar, Sir Roy Strong of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, observes that Fabergé's work "was almost the last expression of court art within the European tradition, which brings with...
...arms control proposals for about two hours. In a question and answer period, one woman asked the candidate to "tell us about yourself, tell us why we as delegates should vote for you." The senator replied in a tone equivalent to the solemnity of the seminar, "Let's not stray from the topic. Believe it or not, this is not a Hart for President event I don't want to detract from the speakers...
...high: they "free-based," breathing a distilled cocaine vapor, Phil alone all night with his glass water pipe and thimble of coke, Rita in another room with hers. In the mornings, Phil and Rita got back together, down on all fours, scratching and picking at the carpet for any stray grains of coke...