Word: tunings
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...school and find meaning in the words of Courtney Love. Perhaps because TV has always been a few steps behind other media in the race to reprocess and package alternative culture (remember that the women's movement was already in swing in the late 1960s, but you could still tune in to a midriff-baring Barbara Eden addressing Larry Hagman as "Master" on I Dream of Jeannie), it has taken a while for empowered girls to be granted their time slots...
Nanci Griffith, prom princess of the country-folk school, dares to suggest that life is something we can get through--and get through more easily with a rousing or sweet-souled tune. Griffith, 42, might be doomed to good humor, with her chipmunk-cute face and perky soprano. In her new CD, Blue Roses from the Moons, she aims for direct emotion and musical simplicity. The bass-heavy Wall of Sound from her 1994 Flyer has crumbled; this is a live-in-the-studio set with a country feel and, among the sidemen, songwriter Sonny Curtis and the three survivors...
...never does anything psychologically simple had been scheming about Newt's problems for months. Dole told his old campaign manager Scott Reed in January that Americans would tune out Washington even more completely if both the President and the Speaker were fending off scandal. Newt should pay the fine, said Dole, and get on with it. The two men worked on Gingrich privately for weeks, but the Speaker kept resisting. Marianne Gingrich was even more hostile: she didn't believe her husband had done anything wrong, and she refused to pony up the couple's savings. The Gingriches are worth...
...munch bagels. Toddlers look for Waldo. "The idea of the cafe and the couches," says Steve Riggio, Barnes & Noble's chief operating officer, "is to make the store a good place to spend leisure time." Riggio's concept appears to be working. Superstores are expanding and multiplying (to the tune of 20% last year) and even stores whose main business isn't bookselling are aping the superstores' bibliophilic ambiance. In Manhattan's landmark Scribner's bookstore, fabled haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, a Benetton branch has set up shop and begun playing host to something called the Salon, a reading...
...that characterizes even the most canned Broadway concoctions. The music was for the most part deftly scored and generally quite suitable for the purposes of musical comedy. Unfortunately, it ended up sounding dismayingly cacophonous in the hands of the orchestra, which was consistently squeaky, poorly unified and out of tune. Most of the cast members were obviously not experienced singers and did not have much more success blending during the ensemble pieces than the orchestra...