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...sassy new music called minimalism burst out of the lofts of Manhattan's SoHo district and marched smartly uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House. Part rock, part raga, part dreamscape and part photo-realism, the minimalist ethos was distilled by composer Philip Glass and theater artist Robert Wilson in a 4 1/2-hour operatic extravaganza called Einstein on the Beach. The sung text consisted solely of numbers and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., while the music was built from a series of simple phrases, insistently repeated. The effect was either riveting or maddening, depending on one's point of view...
...worry--the "revised" show still boasts plenty of recent hits, including "A Matter of Trust" and "Uptown Girl," as well as "We Didn't Start the Fire"--Joel's number one hit from the triple-platinum Storm Front...
...sitnov, First Hubby may be about three bricks shy of a load, which is the title of one of Roy Blount Jr.'s amiable volumes of uptown down-home humor. Still, Blount is good company whatever he's writing, even if his puns ("Li Pung lizards!" as a comment on Clementine's China policy) hit the wall and dribble down like tossed eggs. And even if some of the jokes are merely gags (he wants to make love, she has a headache, he's hurt, and she says no, a political headache: she has to fire the Defense Secretary). That...
...been spurred to action by explosive grass-roots campaigns. Consumer activists seem ready to pounce on almost any "target marketing" by tobacco and liquor manufacturers, a reference to advertising that is tailored to appeal to particular groups. Earlier this year, RJR Nabisco canceled plans for two new cigarette brands -- Uptown, aimed at blacks, and Dakota, which targeted uneducated young women -- in the face of heated opposition from consumer-advocacy groups...
...company is more aware of which way the smoke is blowing than RJR. Last month it gave in to protest and dropped its plans for a cigarette for blacks called Uptown. Now RJR is mired in criticism over its intention to test-market a new cigarette called Dakota. The controversy began when an antismoking group, the Advocacy Institute, released copies of a marketing plan for Dakota that had been leaked to the institute. The documents, which call the cigarette Project VF, for virile female, describe the typical customer as an entry-level factory worker, 18 to 20 years...