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Sounds and images once considered experimental are now becoming commonplace. Knockoffs of Glass's trademark repeating chords and arpeggios pop up in television commercials, movie scores and the New Age sounds of Windham Hill. Tharp's sinuous, explosive movements have been danced by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Free-form surrealism is the mainstay of the rock videos on MTV, and their most innovative directors, like Russell Mulcahy, have graduated to feature films. Probably not in the past half-century have the works of the avant-garde achieved such wide currency among mainstream audiences...
...trademark may be a soccer ball rather than a football, but nonetheless, Pele, 45, has been tapped to be grand marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., next New Year's Day. The Brazilian megastar, who led his country's team to World Cup victory three times and scored 1,281 goals in his career before retiring in 1977, follows such past marshals as John Wayne (1973), Gerald Ford (1978) and Lee Iacocca (1985) in kicking off the show. "To me it is like another World Cup," said Pele, who flew to California to accept his latest...
Wearing a grey jacket complete with his trademark shoulder pads, Byrne signed books, records, and other paraphernalia for an hour and a half to promote his new book, "True Stories," which was adapted from a motion picture of the same name...
...past week's developments include fresh allegations, especially from the campaign of L. Joyce Hampers. Observers predicted even after her nomination at April's Republican Convention that she would use her trademark hard-hitting campaign style. Her attacks on 22-year incumbent Robert Q. Crane's private finances have been consistent enough to inspire a television spot from Crane accusing her of "mudslinging...
...sure and unsure, sick and well. He says, 'Maybe. I don't know. All right . . .' and too often we don't listen." Then, with one rein, Ray pulls his mare's head around until her nose touches his knee. He rubs her forehead, a gesture that has become a trademark of Hunt clinics. "She knows my mind, and I try to understand hers, and she knows I'm her friend...