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...Rothenberg's work. These are bluntly autobiographical, fragments of depression that crunch a lot of extreme feeling into a very small figurative compass. They are miserable figuration, sparse in detail, almost resentfully so, but piercing in their plainness. They bear no relation at all to the general run of '80s Neo- Expressionism, which was overblown, self-dramatizing and almost industrially repetitive...
Most of the classes which entered in the late 80s have contained about 130 Black students...
...twice more at close range. Fifteen minutes later, the gunman, having disguised his face and beard with silver spray paint, held up a grocery store. When the counterman was a little slow emptying the cash register, Jackson blew him away. One of the most vicious crime sprees of the '80s had begun...
...Cupid and Kewpie doll of the Jackson 5, he had three No. 1 hits. He did O.K. on his own too: the two best-selling albums in history (Thriller and Bad) and a contract with Sony Entertainment valued at a billion dollars. For most of the '80s, long before anyone felt compelled to dub him the King of $ Pop, he was that and more...
...romantic idiom with the intention "to establish communication [with], rather than to alienate an audience." His most famous work is a brilliant hour-long set of diverse variations for piano on a Chilean leftist anthem, "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" (1975). In the late '70s and early '80s Rzewski turned to American folk song and jazz for musical material and to environmentalism for political motivation. In 1987-88 he composed the oratorio "The Triumph of Death," based on a play by Peter Weiss depicting the trial of Nazi war criminals...