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...earliest known appearance in print and uses quotations to illustrate the context in which the word has been used and all shifts of meaning to which it has been subjected. Hence AIDS (another lamentable addition to the lexicon) is defined and then traced back to its presumptive print debut, in the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report of Sept...
...eleven new plays have been comedies, three of them sex farces, and the cheapest of four new musicals cost $5 million to stage, it is heartening to see work as simple, spare and serious as Metamorphosis. One just wishes it were better. Despite an effective stage- acting debut by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, the most ballyhooed highbrow event in the theater so far this year is all but bereft of emotional force. At the finale, two actresses stand rigid, their cheeks glazed with tears, yet much of the audience reacts only with uneasy titters. Director Steven Berkoff's highly stylized script...
...Programs about publicizing D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, a new rap duo. AT&T provided the necessary 900 area-code number. The result was an immediate hit. Spurred on by a TV ad campaign, some 2.5 million rapsters have rung up Jazzy Jeff and friend since the debut of their two- minute talkfest last June. The cost: $2 for the first minute, 45 cents a minute thereafter. Other hot lines soon followed. Now word of Phone Programs' success has got around. "People from every walk of music are coming to us," says V.P. Cory Eisner...
STAND AND DELIVER (PBS, March 15, 8 p.m. on most stations). Edward James Olmos is up for an Academy Award for his performance as a dedicated inner-city math teacher in this fact-based film, produced for American Playhouse and now having its TV debut...
...last month's Grammy Awards, that was more than enough to earn them an odd coupling of both jazz and gospel prizes. They are also up for six Gospel Music Association awards next month. The sextet appeared out of nowhere in 1988 with an impeccable debut album (titled Take 6) that inspired hallelujahs from the likes of jazzman Quincy Jones. Coming up in 1989: a second album, a video with Stevie Wonder, a 36-date tour with Al Jarreau, album backup for Johnny Mathis and a sound-track tune for filmmaker Spike...