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...Decareau earned himself rave reviews and perhaps a starting job with clutch hitting and startling defensive work. Batting in the ninth slot, Decareau surprised the beleagured Brown bomb victims with a base-clearing double, capping off a seven-run inning. His encore was a towering Sunday-afternoon solo shot to left...
...remains one of their most winning compositions. Originally a 25-minute piece for the school's younger boys, it was expanded for a performance at Central Hall, Westminster, where by chance it was heard by Derek Jewell, a music critic for the London Sunday Times. His unexpected rave led to a recording. Lloyd Webber's deft gift for parody (the Elvis homage of Pharaoh's Story) and melodic invention (Joseph's moving anthem Close Every Door) captured a wide audience. "Without realizing it," recalls Rice, "we were breaking new ground by forgetting about Rodgers and Hammerstein...
That impact is viewed with alarm by many. The rave reviews won by Gorbachev's television performance ("A tour de force" -- San Francisco Chronicle) sparked grumbling that TV had given a slick propagandist a free platform from which to seduce the American people. The candidates' debate, too, was decried as another instance of TV's reducing complex issues to trivial matters of looks, performing style and catchy one-liners. Neither TV event, however, was a ratings blockbuster: both were soundly beaten by entertainment fare on the other networks...
More than a year since taking the reigns of the controversy-ridden Massachusetts Board of Regents, a Harvard administrator has received rave reviews for a tough management style that politicians say is keeping the state's chief education governing body under control...
...eminence, yet he considers himself and his rock peers mere "moons and satellites" to Hollywood stars like Bogart and Hepburn; a man who has spent a third of a century in the show-biz sideshow cannot shake his awe for celebrities in the main ring. He continues to play rave-up rock 'n' roll -- by now he must have performed Sweet Little Sixteen more times than Judy Garland ever sang Over the Rainbow -- but mostly for middle-class whites whose average age skirts closer to 60 than to 16. He is a goodie playing to oldies...