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...James Newton Howard's swashbuckling music for the otherwise waterlogged epic Waterworld. Together with the idiosyncratic Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure) and the rhapsodic Trevor Jones (The Last of the Mohicans, Cliffhanger), not to mention such still active veterans as Jerry Goldsmith (Basic Instinct), Ennio Morricone (Wolf) and, foremost among them, John Williams, whose 1977 score for Star Wars single-handedly revived the Technicolor genre, they form the core of Hollywood's new musical A-list...
...called "The Beat Goes On," consists of several touch-screen computers showing video clips of rockers along with the performers who influenced them--Chuck Berry, for example, is linked with saxophonist Louis Jordan. Other exhibits are devoted to important rock precursors, such as blues greats Lead Belly and Howlin' Wolf. There are plenty of intriguing curios on display as well--such as the Who drummer Keith Moon's grade school report card, saying he "is inclined to play the fool." There is flair in even the smallest detail: the building's ATMS look like jukeboxes. Mostly, however, the museum rises...
...society. Society, he said, tells us to cooperate with one another, indeed, even to "love thy neighbor as thyself"; yet by our nature, we are tempted to exploit our neighbor, "to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [Man is a wolf to man]." The Unabomber, too, in his mode aas armchair psychologist, celebrates our "WILD nature" and complains that in modern society "we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other." This sort of cramping of our natural selves, he opines, creates "oversocialized...
...dangerous frontier--battling the forces of the Grinch, the forces of darkness. It was a typical old flower-child battle for the forces of good and mercy and gentleness and mischief. You can't work that frontier without getting into some danger now and then. The dire wolf finally...
...been kind of floundering as an organization," former Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf, who was endorsed by the CCA, said in February. "I think there's a certain amount of disarray now and I think that could have major implications for their politics. They've got to get their act together...