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Hillary Clinton will be targeted too. "Barbara Bush plays the piano so she doesn't drown out George's violin," says Richard Nixon. "Hillary pounds the piano so hard that Bill can't be heard. You want a wife who's intelligent, but not too intelligent." For Roger Ailes, who directed the Bush media effort four years ago, the logic is simple: "You couple them and go for a score on family values. You say that Bill and Hillary believe that children should have the right to sue their parents. I don't know if Bill believes that, but Hillary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest It's Not Going to Be Pretty | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...even though Lowery's song-writing is the clear foundation of the band, the other members of the group are hardly potted plants. Johnny Hickman's "Mr. Wrong," the last song on the first side, is a spontaneous, grooving number. The piano, violin and bluesy guitar give the song an old-fashioned, gritty feeling lacking in most music today...

Author: By Dan Sharfstein, | Title: A Listener's Perspective: Cracker | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...other songs are quirky and interesting and feature fabulous lyrics. The dream-like "Can I Take my Gun Up to Heaven?" --with acoustic guitar and violin--is the closest Cracker comes to Camper Van Beethoven's sound on its brilliant Key Lime Pie release...

Author: By Dan Sharfstein, | Title: A Listener's Perspective: Cracker | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...country in her mid-40s, it was to sing about such nonbucolic topics as older women sleeping with younger men. Even the down-home Reba McEntire, who spent her youth on her father's ranch and on the rodeo circuit, went on to college, where she studied classical violin and piano and "analyzed Mozart every which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Bach Society Orchestra--performs Copland's Appalachian Spring, Mendelssohn's concerto in E minor for violin and orchestra. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $5 for students; $6 general. $1 discount for tickets purchased in advance. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

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