Word: tuning
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With the world's attention focused on Eastern Europe, no one expected the resurgence of an ugly little war in a troubled little country on the American continent. Certainly not the El Salvadoran armed forces, or the U.S. Government, which funds the Salvadoran military to the tune of $85 million a year. Or the 5 million war-weary citizens of El Salvador. All had been encouraged by two recent rounds of peace talks to hope that a settlement in El Salvador's ten-year civil war might be in the offing. Even when the talks broke off three weeks...
...among the 121 network affiliates that are CNN partners. The Atlanta-based cable network airs stories provided by its partners via satellite, and distributes the stories to other station partners for their use. Broadcasters believe local viewers who catch their news teams on cable may be more likely to tune in the station if they like what they see. Says Peter Herford, a former CBS News executive who directs the Benton Broadcast Fellowships at the University of Chicago: "All of these factors are pulling apart the traditional relationship between the networks and their affiliates...
...libretto depends too heavily on whether the industrialist will turn crooked to save his neck (anyone can see he will) and on a love match between the baron and the ballerina that ends almost before it has begun. Director- choreographer Tommy Tune provides a pretentious last-minutes ballet between characters introduced as love and death. Despite these shortcomings, Grand Hotel is the musical winner of the season, bringing to mind, if not quite matching, the kinetic narratives of Harold Prince, Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett in their heyday. Tune takes a set more cluttered than Threepenny's -- fluted columns...
They forgot about Mikey, the embryo (and then infant) with star quality. Sassy but never cynical, Mikey is first seen, through some cunningly simple special effects, as a kind of hot-rodding sperm cruising up the Fallopian tube to the tune of the Beach Boys' I Get Around. "The sperm comes on and people go crazy," says Jonathan Krane, the film's producer. "From then on they're laughing at the picture." Not quite. They're laughing with it, in the easy, conspiratorial laughter any domestic comedy would kill...
...close your eyes during the final guitar solo at the end of "Before You Accuse Me," you just might think you're listening to an old Bluesbreakers tune. But you're not. Eric Clapton's Journeyman has planted him firmly in the 1980s world of synthesizers and drum kits. The few blues songs that prop up this album seem sadly anachronistic in an arena of bubble...