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Early in the night, the group established that, whether they played hits from the '70s, '80s or '90s, they still had the same power and compulsive drive that defines Aerosmith. In the beginning of the set, the group alternately launched into "Back in the Saddle," "Cryin" and "Love in an Elevator," all sounding as fresh as an impromptu jam session...
Since the late '80s, we have been asked to believe that Elizabeth Taylor, Julio Iglesias, Herb Alpert, Gabriela Sabatini, Joan Collins, Princess Stephanie, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Sophia Loren and, of course, Cher are people whose eponymous perfumes are better than fragrances to which the names of show people have not been appended. Certainly Julio, Liz and Joan are people whom we instinctively believe to be intensely scented, but do even the buyers of White Diamonds imagine that Taylor concocted the stuff...
...late '80s, dancehall had reached the U.S., where it found its audience in the growing legions of hip-hop fans who earlier had been put off by reggae's relatively laid-back vibes. Armed with hip-hop's sexually suggestive stance and a souped-up, aggressive beat, dancehall performers like Snow, Shabba Ranks and Shaggy have reinvigorated the music and muscled their way up the U.S. charts...
...prostheses. "When you are very isolated or alone," she remarks to the show's curator, Germano Celant, in a catalog interview, "you have this . tremendous longing for communication, and also this strong desire to communicate through the body." Hence her body-art and performance pieces through the '70s and '80s, in which bodies (her own or others') got fitted out with bandage-like wraps -- symbols of Horn's obsession with healing -- or with peculiar extensions like a unicorn horn, or fingers several feet long, or enveloping soft forms like The Feathered Prison...
...British felt pretty good about themselves back in the '80s, what with victory in the Falklands and Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. Now they are unhappy about what they don'thave: a thriving economy, job security, falling crime rates, ethnic harmony. No wonder a Gallup poll in July found that 54% feel their country is a snobbish, class-ridden society, 75% are convinced that the royal family lead indolent, jet-set lives, and only 3% predict that Britain will remain a world power in the next decade. Such responses may explain why, when asked if they would like to leavethe...