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Savimbi's career is no textbook example of anti-Communism. In his fight against the Portuguese colonial rule that ended in Angola in 1975, Savimbi traveled to China to study revolutionary tactics. In those days, he talked of turning Angola into a Maoist agricultural commune, stating, "You can't apply capitalism to Africa...
...mixing up a tasty bit of rock and roll, Philistines is an easy listening pop album with neither the crunch of "rock" nor the snap of "roll." In short, this is rock music for people drink decaffinated coffee, exercise regularly and watch out for too much salt in their textbook guided diets...
...DYLAN'S Lyrics, 1962-1985 doesn't contain an introduction or an afterword, a chronology or a summary, a preface or a publisher's note, a jacket biography or even a jacket. Sturdily bound in a glossy gray hardcover, it looks more like a junior high school science textbook than a definitive edition of a great artist's work. Inside, on heavy-stock paper and printed with big, easy-to-read letters, is page after page of lyrics, liner notes and line drawings penned by the former Robert Zimmerman in the 24 years since he arrived in New York City...
...audience to let his rewrite run without all the oblations to trendiness. There should be a place at the ART for mainstream theatre that doesn't seek to break the sound barrier for its utter chic-ness. That is, if the professor doesn't mind putting aside his textbook on cornering the Latest Thing market...
...recent tutorial session resembled a conference of doctors brainstorming over a cutting-edge clinical problem. Since Goodenough doesn't often volunteer the answers, students appear to confront the clinical and basic science issues as if those issues had never before been discovered, addressed, answered, and summarily entombed in a textbook...