Word: vegas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unauthorized sampling ends in discord. Tom's Diner, an a cappella tune by Suzanne Vega, had been known only to fans who owned her 1987 album, Solitude Standing. Then late last year a couple of audacious remix artists who call themselves DNA sampled Vega's voice and grafted it onto a throbbing beat. Vega liked the new version so much that she asked her record company to release it. The resulting Top Five single was the surprise...
...past, the council has lost money on most of its concerts. Last year's Ziggy Marley concert was a $10,000 loss, and the 1989 Suzanne Vega concert cost the council upwards...
...have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock to a newly formed Green Society, gather to discuss the biological causes of altruism. They also enjoy unusual access to the world: in the midst of Conservative Party turmoil, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, a devoted Old Etonian remembered for his play along the Wall, was scheduled to come down...
...directly accountable finance committee would change that (and, most likely, prevent Suzanne Vega-like disasters). And when grants time rolled around, the financiers would have to go to the masses via house meetings or referenda. (The houses are still good for something...
...villagers of Fuente Ovejuna took collective responsibility for the murder. When royal investigators sought the name of the culprit, villagers swore that the whole town did it. Moreover, politics never obscures the melodrama, a thoroughly satisfying tale of robberies, rapes and other cruelties ferociously avenged. If Lope de Vega cannot rival his contemporary Shakespeare for depth and subtlety of character, he is surely the Bard's equal for rumbustious plot. (And vastly his superior for productivity: whereas Shakespeare wrote 37 or so plays -- authorship of some is disputed -- Lope de Vega is credited with about 1,800, of which...