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...previous spring Lee's council had secured a costly performance by folk-rock star Suzanne Vega--and lost around $25,000 on the poorly-attended affaire...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Undergraduate Council | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...both concerts were booked and debated early in the year and so by the spring, the concert debate--always a lively one since the Vega concert-- could not be counted on to attract the body's membership to meetings...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Undergraduate Council | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...last year's Suzanne Vega performance, poor attendance cost the Undergraduate Council over...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Ticket Sales For Concert Sluggish | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

...fact, is driving the FBI crazy. Since early April, some lucky residents of the gritty Puerto Rican seaside village of Vega Baja have been zipping around with new cars and motorcycles, buying new houses and otherwise behaving like Donald Trump. Turns out that several villagers (no one will say who or how many) dug up at least one of about ten big plastic drums containing as much as $20 million that someone, presumably a drug dealer, had buried on a nearby farm. While townsfolk kept digging fresh holes all over the place, agents dashed about trying to reclaim the cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: X Marks The Spot | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...intricacies of her songs. Her hair these days is a half-inch black corona of fuzz, but she has never been shy about speaking out. "I would rather be compared to Patti Smith than anybody," she says. "I don't want to be compared to people like Suzanne Vega, because I don't like wishy-washy music." She declines to analyze her own work but is keen about rap, reggae and Michael Jackson ("He's a doll, he's a god") and is open as a wound about the lacerating Irish upbringing from which many of her lyrics spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Approach of A Desolation Angel | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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