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...before the team can celebrate a job well done, the Crimson must first get by Yale (6-6, 10-14) in New Haven tonight at 7:30 p.m. (WHRB, 95.3 FM, tape delay). And although Harvard crushed the Elis, 89-68, earlier this season, Harvard Coach Peter Roby isn't taking them for granted...
Last month Scott Shannon, a deejay at New York City's top-rated WHTZ-FM, who obtained a copy of Dear Mr. Jesus from WRBQ-FM in Tampa, played it in honor of Lisa Steinberg, the six-year-old girl allegedly beaten to death while in the care of a Manhattan couple. Within 24 hours, Dear Mr. Jesus became WHTZ's most requested song; it still prompts 3,000 calls a day. Since then, stations across the country have discovered the same phenomenon. Last week New York- based Island Records was one of several companies seeking the rights to Dear...
...Vega reached the Top Ten with Luka, a more understated and artful approach to the topic. Nonetheless, the mournful plea of Dear Mr. Jesus clearly strikes a chord. "You can go on with child-abuse announcements and public service all you want," says Buddy Scott, program director for WBBM-FM in Chicago, "but this song causes an emotion in you that you really are not prepared...
...whole is growing steadily. Bantam Books says its New Age titles have increased tenfold in the past decade. The number of New Age bookstores has doubled in the past five years, to about 2,500. New Age radio is spreading, with such stations as WBMW in Washington and KTWV-FM in Los Angeles offering dreamy light jazz that one listener described as "like I tapped into a radio station on Mars." The Grammys now include a special prize for New Age music (latest winner: Swiss Harpist Andreas Vollenweider). Fledgling magazines with names like New Age, Body Mind Spirit and Brain/Mind...
...room in which a television set flickers on with MTV and a radio offers spurious opinions on contras and condoms. Junk food, junk music, junk opinions. Where are we? Where is the nation beyond the highway? Civilization speaks through the public radio stations in the 90s on the FM dial. Back in North Carolina, somewhere south of High Point, National Public Radio's All Things Considered had come through the car speaker, talking of a book named Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls, about life in the mills as people moved into the cities from the sharecropper cabins glimpsed even...