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...Harvard, this is a near-must-win game (1 p.m. kickoff, WHRB 95.3 FM, PBS). The Crimson is currently tied with Yale atop the Anceint Eight at 4-1. Three teams, Princeton, Brown and Cornell, lurk a game back...
...happened like this: My pressbox seat was right next to the announcers from the Holy Cross radio station--WCHC, 89.1 FM, a new music station covering all of Worcester. The station's often-played promo intones, "WCHC--Listen...or Don't." In a moment...
...pull your kid out." And in Vanity Fair, James Wolcott wrote an almost scholarly piece on the chroniclers of the young and wasted, pronouncing them "too numb to feel, to cool to care...Current fiction is festooned with their razor cuts and insignia. Listen closely and the lite-FM melodies of Ann Beattie snarl into a more hostile noise...
DIED. William S. Halstead, 84, prolific inventor whose more than 80 patents include the technology for adding stereo sound in motion pictures; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Halstead, born in Mount Kisco, N.Y., in 1950 developed a system that allowed FM stations to use sidebands of their main frequencies for stereo transmission. After World War II, Halstead helped create the first commercial TV network in Japan...
...Rimbauds of rock and the women merely interpreters, trimming their expertise to the cut of the material. LaBelle or Bette Midler could coax a ballad to tears or go all raw in a rave- up, but that wasn't artistry, only dexterity without the signature of commitment. Meanwhile, FM radio's narrow-cast formats were herding black artists into the chic ghettos of Las Vegas and the R.-and-B. stations. By now the first generation of rock-'n'-roll kids had hit their 30s and wearied of a heavy-metal pep-pill diet. The music's emotional poverty...