Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, things are different. Coaching legend Mark Duffner has left to ride the Division I-A Tulane Green Wave and Holy Cross has stopped awarding athletic scholarships--a combination akin to firing both barrels of a shotgun at the football team. It's hurting. (Exhibit A: Yale...
Other Harvard-related elitists include poetRobert E. Bly '50, Design School graduate andnew-wave architect Frank O. Gehry, billionaireSumner M. Redstone...
...early work of British rocker Peter Gabriel, whose new album Us on come out on Tuesday, followed all three trends. Gabriel's group Genesis joined solid musicianship to an arty attitude and used both to produce a string of murky, meandering albums. Clinging to rock's new-wave margins, Gabriel subsequently released three solo albums, all self-titled, and then a fourth, named Security. He filled all four with rock philosophy and single-issue politics...
...Eastern Europe the situation is a little better. The initial wave of inflation that accompanied free-market reforms is subsiding: this year's Polish rate, for example, is expected to be 40%, down from 70% in 1991. Although official figures still show sagging production and rising unemployment, some experts suspect the statistics have not caught up with a booming private market. "Shopping in Poland these days is far easier than shopping in Austria," says John Reed, a Vienna-based expert on the Polish economy. "It's the wild, wild East, with shops open at all hours and a range...
...American Music Theater Festival, Houston Grand Opera and Women's Project & Productions, has a promising future ahead of its. Following its Cambridge debut, it is scheduled for a number of other American cities as well as the opening event of the Brooklyn's Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival...