Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...dean for student affairs at the Med School, minorities comprise less than 3 per cent of the medical faculties in the United States, and Harvard's record is not much better than the national average. The scarcity can not easily be attributed to any single outstanding problem and seems instead to be the result of a number of contributing factors...
...that is easily the biggest hit they've had (getting more play than "Psycho Killer" from the Talking Heads: '77 album). An entire album like that probably would have broken them into the big time. But art-rock groups do not always seek mainstream acceptance. The Talking Heads have instead followed the path started by "I Zimbra," a seemingly one-shot affair that got heavy play on disco stations because of the nonsense lyrics' throbbing polyrhythmic background...
Fortunately, this album has not followed the path of the Bowie-Eno collaborations, which allowed Eno's synthesizers, loops and feedbacks to dictate the tone. Instead, the Heads have chosen their own tone, and the tone is funk. People knew things were up with the band when they toured this summer with Parliament-Funkadelic's horn section, and then it was announced that Byrne and Eno would release an album based on African tribal songs called My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (whose release has since been blocked by legal difficulties...
...pursued even in the new new Army, but such mild comedy as the film offers lies in watching a middle-class lady come to terms with the rigors of basic training. Even so, it cannot be said that having the tired old situations of service comedies worked by women instead of men freshens them much...
...Franco Romagnoli, who in two previous books have done a commendable job of explicating la cucina italiana for Americans. Their new book largely concerns itself with the adaptation of traditional recipes to contemporary methods and lifestyles: using an electric pasta machine; preparing a ragú in 45 minutes instead of the conventional four hours. For lagniappe, the Romagnolis offer some interesting modifications of traditional formulas, such as leg of lamb with gin and lemon spaghetti. A handy companion book is Teresa Gilardi Candler's Vegetables the Italian Way (McGraw-Hill; $12.95). Candler, the daughter of a restaurant family...