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Despite those feelings, there's nothing solemn about Horne's "prayer." The album begins playfully with Maybe, a Strayhorn rarity written for Horne, and she gives it an easy swing that belies its hard-won wisdom ("Love is a shoestring/ Any way you tie it, it may become undone ...") Next comes Something to Live For, the great Strayhorn-Ellington ballad about having it all without having love, which Horne suffuses with trembling vulnerability. She's raucous and tough on another worldly Strayhorn number, Love Like This Can't Last. And with beautiful enunciation, she finds the quiet essence of Strayhorn...
Gilbert and Sullivan purists will hate the The Hot Mikado, at Washington's Ford's Theatre and apparently on its way to Broadway. Musically, they will deplore the conversion of W.S. Gilbert's candybox-pretty score into swing, jazz and gospel arrangements that bounce like the 1940s. Lyrically, they will ask themselves which is worse, rewriting some of Arthur Sullivan's urbane verse (one big laugh comes when Katisha, a scorned lady of the court played as a black street diva by Loretta Devine, screeches, "You piss me off!") or rendering much of what is left all but unintelligible through...
President Clinton will be the first U.S. leader to visit independent Russian neighbors Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia next month when he kicks off a grand swing through Europe. The Baltic stop will precede a meeting with Polish President Lech Walesa and the G-7 economic summit on July 8-10 in Naples. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says a friendly presidential visit to the Baltics was inevitable: they're serving as pathfinders to show Russia the way to modernization...
...UMPS ARE BIASED. Pitchers carp about an elf-size strike zone and umpires who call close pitches in the batters' favor. "Borderline pitches make the difference," says White Sox starter Alex Fernandez, "and the umps don't give us those calls. They don't make guys swing the bat." Instead, hitters can wait for that fat one. Speaking of which...
People are starting to talk. What self-respecting Crimson editor could go most of his college career without taking a swing at the Gang That Can't Shoot Straight...