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Cyndi Lauper is the manic outsider in every high school class - brassy and sensitive, dippy and shrewd - whose hair seems to have been colored by a box of melted Crayolas and who dresses in the kinds of duds gypsies might wear if they had proms. Part Piaf, part Little Peggy March, she also has a razzle- dazzle, multi-octave range, a voice that can coax a broken promise out of a ballad or pin a rocker right to the mat. She has the whole package. But Madonna has the look...
Madonna may indeed have a shrewd notion of both her limitations and her ultimate appeal. "I don't think Madonna, whom I like, has any particular interest in music," says Rock Critic Greil Marcus. "She's going to end up a big movie star. There's nothing wrong with that." As the eldest daughter in a large family whose mother died young, Madonna has always seemed to be looking for a way out. She studied dance, tried ballet and, by the time she left home in her late teens, had already starred in her first movie. It was a Super...
...they used well-established smuggling pipelines; for their distribution, a North American syndicate stretching from Miami to Vancouver. Escobar united the coqueros into a cartel and even organized a fund to serve as a kind of insurance in the event of raids or losses. The drug dons were also shrewd enough to invest their profits in diversified holdings: they now own extensive real estate in Florida, half of the approximately 200 high-rises along Panama City's oceanfront, and a variety of small businesses and financial institutions, like currency-exchange houses, through which they can launder their profits. "These guys...
...this highly charged and total recall heals nothing, and Lance Morrow knows it. So he amplifies his theme with shrewd and tough-minded investigations of the nature of American power and of the collisions of class and generations. The Chief is an ambiguous title: it signifies an Indian- hunting ancestor and the man he pursued; it is also Hugh Morrow and his employer. And it is every father and the next generation. At the finale, the author asks his two-year-old son Justin, "What's new?" The child replies "with perfect accuracy, for him, 'Everything!' " Irony does not intrude...
...these days, unperturbed by the naysayers. His electoral mandate tells him that the people want him to "stay the course." Critics carp that he is too complacent, too set in his ways. Yet Reagan's simple, straight-ahead optimism can be deceiving. In the past, he has shown a shrewd sense of political timing, a knack for changing course at just the right moment. The hard choices of Ronald Reagan's second term will test his instinct for compromise, again and again...