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This time Bentsen cut a wider swath in Washington. In the days before economist chic, he quickly established himself as the Senator with the numbers. His office was hung with spreadsheets and flow charts. In a world of financial illiterates, he became known as a man of probing analysis and computer-chip memory who actually knew how to wend intricate tax breaks for the oil and real estate industries through Congress...
...What makes country hot at the moment is something that can't be graphed or computed. But it can be heard, sometimes on radio stations that play rock or even -- shudder -- easy listening. There is a bumper crop of new talent around, making personal, adventurous, uncompromised music for a wider audience that is not bound by country's strict conventions. It could be that things haven't been so fertile since the '50s, with the coming of Johnny Cash and the brash flush of rockabilly. For sure, the pickings haven't been so rich since Waylon and Willie and Merle...
...American theater." After writing two books in Spanish, Novelist Roberto Fernandez has just published his first in English, Raining Backwards, a comic account of Cuban life in Miami. "I did it for the same reason that Miami Sound Machine sings in English," he explains. "I wanted to reach a wider audience...
...will not turn 40 until July 16, but Ruben Blades has already given himself the perfect birthday present. Anyone who wants is welcome to share it too. It was an early gift -- showing up, as it did, some four months before the big day -- but it casts a wider glow than a forest of candles planted on a piece of pastry. Blades went out and made himself a great record...
...will hear it? Who will play it? Previously, albums by the Panama-born Blades were recorded in Spanish and aimed at a Spanish-speaking audience. By making Nothing But the Truth in English, he has risked losing his core audience while still seeming perhaps too ethnic to a wider, whiter one. The record has not hatched a hit, and up till now has sold a modest 100,000 copies. It has also created a tactical problem: "How do we work it out so I can address both Anglo and Latin audiences...