Word: vocals
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...perceptual sense, the gloom is deeper because this time unemployment has hit an influential and vocal class of managers and other white-collar workers. "So many of us are seeing our peers thrown out of work," says John Rogers, who runs his own Chicago investment firm. "That's what's so frightening...
...about her beloved rock idols is less clear. Megasuccess may be poisoning them. She finds Michael Jackson's current album "appalling," Prince a letdown, Madonna drifting. "She wants to cover all frontiers, but she has very little talent for acting," says one of the Material Girl's most vocal fans...
When Barenboim (an Israeli citizen born in Argentina) announced his plans, the most immediate outcry rose from a small but vocal minority of Jews for whom the names of Wagner and Hitler are inextricably linked. "Like it or not, Wagner is a symbol of Nazism, as sure as the swastika is," said Avram Melamed, a violinist with the Israel Philharmonic. Commented Barenboim at a post-cancellation press conference: "I can't help feeling that there are a lot of people in Israel who still think Wagner lived in Berlin in 1942 and was a personal friend of Hitler...
...CHIEFTAINS: THE BELLS OF DUBLIN (RCA Victor). Is it too late for season's greetings? Not when they're as enterprising and altogether buoyant as this collection of Christmas songs by the great Irish traditional band, who augment their fiddles, harpsichord and Uilleann Pipes with vocal accompaniment by such % diverse characters as Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones and Marianne Faithfull. A real Christmas treat...
Finally, even the most vocal critics of clubs must concede the logic of having at least one female alternative on campus. Perhaps, with some luck, the Bee will be as prosperous and enduring as its nine all-male counterparts...