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...CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU FROM PHIL SPECTOR (ABKCO Records). A card-carrying classic; not only the definitive Christmas house shaker but also a paradigm of Wagnerian rock at its most ingenuous. From the Ronettes melting the heart of Frosty the Snowman to Darlene Love's soul-scorching Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), this is Phil Spector's grandest production...
Gregory, who was selected from the mid-Atlantic district, plans to get an M-Phil in Philosophic Theology. He also looks forward to travelling in Europe and studying with Oxford professors...
...PHIL SPECTOR: BACK TO MONO (1958-1969) (Phil Spector Records Inc./Abkco). The Wagner of rock, celebrating his own Wall of Sound glory, in a four-CD box featuring 60 of his biggest hits and wildest productions. This is rock at its grandest and giddiest. Spanning nearly a quarter-century, classics like Be My Baby and Then He Kissed Me are three-minute operas of teen passion, which have endured because of the grandeur and unapologetic delirium of the Spector style. His production techniques are elaborate and near legendary, but even if they could be duplicated, it wouldn...
Caramandi can take some of the credit for Gravano's turning canary. Caramandi's defection in 1987 helped lead in turn to the flipping of Philadelphia underboss Philip (Crazy Phil) Leonetti, who was scheduled to testify in the January trial against Gotti and Gravano. According to a five- page debriefing obtained by TIME, Leonetti told federal agents in late 1989 about the 1981 Valentine's Day murder of gangster Frank Stillitano, whose body had been found in the trunk of a rental car. Leonetti said members of the Philadelphia crime family had met with Gravano and other Gambino mobsters...
Most undergraduate sections at the school went untaught yesterday, according to Phil M. Cox, a spokesperson for the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), which represents the graduate student teaching assistants. In addition, many of the University's buildings were picketed, said Lenson, president of the college's faculty union...