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...Twin Peaks can be counted a success -- and not just d'estime. The show has proved that original, challenging and idiosyncratic fare can be done for TV, even within rigid network confines, and that people will tune in. Twin Peaks is, in fact, the culmination of a surprisingly fruitful season for offbeat, formula-breaking shows. ABC's Elvis, though a failure in the ratings, deconstructed the rock king's life into fresh, evocative snippets of biodrama. Fox's The Simpsons put an off-kilter, animated spin on TV's portrayal of the family, while Fox's The Outsiders, at least...
...just pleased because the guys turned what could've become a sloppy event into a good tune-up for Princeton," Harvard Coach Dave Fish said, referring to tomorrow's Ivy-deciding match against the undefeated Tigers. "[Harvard] maintained an extremely high intensity level in every point...
...would dream of tampering with the majestic music of Britain's national anthem, familiar to Americans as the tune of My Country, 'Tis of Thee. But the words are another matter, in particular the assertive second verse, which calls on the deity to scatter the monarch's enemies, in phrases much admired by Queen Victoria: "Confound their politics/ Frustrate their knavish tricks." Last month the Church of England's Liturgical Commission suggested substituting a kindlier version, written by a London shoemaker in 1836, for use when the anthem is sung at Remembrance Day services for the dead...
...bopping right along. Twelve million people tune in each week, and the number of member stations has grown from 90 in 1970 to 395. Morning Edition, with its weekly audience of 4.8 million listeners, is public radio's top draw. Not even Garrison Keillor's new American Radio Company of the Air, which is produced by NPR's friendly rival, American Public Radio, commands such a large audience...
That nervy economy of means is the trademark of Andrew Lloyd Webber, who assumes -- correctly, to judge from box-office receipts -- that theatergoing adults take delight in hearing a catchy tune repeated as often as Top 40 songs on teenybopper radio stations. In lesser hands (for that matter, in his own earlier shows), this repetition can suggest paucity of imagination or a kind of melodic stinginess. But in Aspects of Love, the London hit that opens on Broadway this week, the technique works: the tunes bear repeating, and the repetition binds a diffuse story of mostly misguided romance. The impact...