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...think some people tune in and tune out physically and have a terrible day. But mentally, you can always assure that you're there...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All-Attitude Athlete | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...videos made of songs in the set, Lennox is seen alone; her only company is her image in the mirror. There's plenty of variety in Lennox's music (long-lined ballads, driving Euro-pop, plaints in the French style), but the tone is consistently, nicely rueful. The sunniest tune, with a piano chirping in a Caribbean accent, is called Walking on Broken Glass. With self-absorption comes the dramatizing of the diva's ego. No one has experienced or endured what she has; no one has been so mad, bad or sad. The woman in these songs is "blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angst For Art's Sake | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

Rappers "sample," building songs on pieces of other people's music. But with Gilbert O'Sullivan and others suing over it, sampling is getting expensive. On their new albums, the Beastie Boys and Ice-T feature actual musical instruments. Next they'll be carrying a tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: May 25, 1992 | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

Certainly a fortnight should have been ample time for the Crimson to fine tune its game, but Kleinfelder says Harvard has had other things on its mind lately...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lax Heads to Promised Land: Final Four | 5/15/1992 | See Source »

CHORUS GIRLS TWIRL AROUND IN HEADdresses a la Busby Berkeley. Gymnasts flex, and one inverts himself into a handstand minutes long. A busty blond croons a pop tune. Then Nazi soldiers march in. No, it's not Broadway's Cabaret, but an even more genuine article, staged by Berlin's Theater des Westens to depict how Hitler's regime fused popular culture and propaganda. BERLIN CABARET, at Washington's Kennedy Center through this week, is gloriously mounted if scantily plotted. Its showy numbers evoke radio, pop music and the 1936 Olympics but focus on the movies, especially as seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: May 11, 1992 | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

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