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...Union blasted loud Chinese music. Actually, the music was just rock-and-roll sung in Chinese. It sounded awful, was too loud and was forced upon diners, most of whom would rather listen to their own choice of music in their dorm rooms rather than having it forced on them at the Union. Without even discussing the questionable decision of playing music at all, it is almost certain that the particular selections chosen could not have been more stupid, inane or offensive. It would not be surprising if the majority of students lost their appetites upon hearing the Chinese rendition...
...Freeway. Not that the music is jarring; far from it. Melodies waft about like tropical breezes, blowing a little irony in all directions. Tokyo Rose begins with a typically peppy but odd Parks arrangement of America -- jukebox Charles Ives -- and ends with a tune about baseball (One Home Run) sung in English and Japanese. In between is a chronicle of misunderstanding. Manzanar is about the internment camps of World War II; White Chrysanthemum is the % poignant evocation of the death of a G.I. who spent his waning days building Nissans down South...
...Unknown Kurt Weill (Nonesuch, 1981). Acerbic rarities from the composer of The Threepenny Opera, sung by opera's sexiest soprano, Teresa Stratas...
...plane heavily laden with loot. Then they were reported to be traveling by car. There was speculation that they had fled abroad, but if so, only three countries seemed likely to accept them: China, which also sends tanks against its own people; North Korea, where dictator Kim Il Sung maintains a cult as extravagant as Ceausescu's; and Iran, where the Rumanian despot last week placed a wreath on the Ayatullah Khomeini's grave. At week's end Rumanian TV said the Ceausescus had been captured...
...early '80s dealers were getting cut out of the game by collectors buying directly at auction. And by 1988, when the auction room had been promoted into a Reagan-decade cathouse of febrile extravagance, where people in black tie and jewels applauded winning bids as though they were arias sung by heroic tenors, private dealers (at least those dealing in the work of dead artists) had less margin of resale to work with. Their market share today is still enormous, but the auction houses are after it, and it is shrinking...