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...into their considerable savings to squeak through the strike, but the football strikers of 1987 are suddenly cashing in. The National Labor Relations Board decided that 1,300 NFL players should get their share of back pay while they were unlawfully barred from play during that season -- to the tune of $30 million...
Like Harvard, Brown enters a new era this season. Mark Whipple, a former-Brown quarterback, assumes the coaching duties, promising a more wide-open offense. Expect him to deliver to the tune of a middle-of-the-pack finish: his University of New Haven team averaged 50.5 and 52.5 points per game, respectively, the past two years...
Meanwhile, all those aging couch potatoes concerned about their heart might as well tune out the cacophony of opinions that results from incomplete knowledge and focus on a few unchanging verities. The reputations of margarine and soybean oil may rise and fall many times over. But butter is still bad. Fruits and vegetables are still good. And most scientists still agree that Americans eat too much fat of all kinds...
...lights finally went down, and the Allman Brothers began with "Sailing Across the Devil's Sea," a tune from their new album "Enlightened Rogues." This was followed by solid deliveries of a pair of their earlier works, "Statesboro Blues" and "Blue Sky." This was the kind of guitar work I had come...
...last piece on the disc is the widelyknown "Tahiti Trot," based on the popular Vincent Youman tune "Tea for Two." As the story goes, Shostakvich orchestrated the theme in 40 minutes after a challenge by a friend. Chintz turns into schmaltz at this point; the listener is treated to a seemingly endless (actually only three-minute-33-second) passing of the mindless theme from section to section. The best advice here is to listen for the melding of one texture into the next. Shostakovich manages to keep within the same balance of bass and treble parts, though he sometimes bursts...