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When Baltimore's baby boomers wax nostalgic about the public schools of the city's past, they do so with some justification. Although class sizes were larger and schools were segregated by law into white and "colored" facilities, attendance was high. In 1950, average daily attendance at Baltimore's senior high schools was a stellar 92% for both black and white children. In 1954, according to city school records, 83.1% of white high school seniors "achieved" in algebra; fully 99.2% of black students did likewise...
...larger world has tried to put into some kind of balance the feelings Tyson inspires: awe, admiration, pity, disappointment, fear and loathing. By the time the sportswriters, columnists and comics were done with him last week, the balance was tipped against him more completely than ever. At the Hollywood Wax Museum in Los Angeles, Tyson's effigy was moved from the Sports Hall of Fame to the Chamber of Horrors. He now stands near Hannibal Lecter, the carnivore from Silence of the Lambs. For a man undone by some indigestible thing within himself, maybe that's just the right spot...
PLATTERS Vinyl is thriving in the digital age. Who buys LPs? Among others, jazz aficionados who want vinyl reissues and club DJs who still spin wax...
...Hole (Astralwerks) features a few songs that energetically blend rock and hip-hop, but Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys did it better in the '80s. The Future Sound of London's Dead Cities (Astralwerks) is as exciting as a dead Tamagotchi, and Underworld's Pearl's Girl (Wax Trax! Records) is only a trifle more fun than having a fax machine call you on your voice line...
...Prodigy's long-awaited CD is supposed to convert the electro doubters. Says James Lavelle, head of England's influential Mo'Wax Records: "[The Prodigy] is one of those bands that do everything right: the right records, the right videos, it looks right, it does the show right." Says band member Flint: "We're not trying to be faceless and thinking that makes us interesting. We're up-front. We're saying, 'Look, if you're going to come out and see us, we're going to rock...