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is to . The answer is C. Polka. This
probably won't be a future SAT question,
but if s the clearest analogy that can be
made with the Texas sextet.
Brave Combo doesn't just play polka
music, they live, breathe and are polka
music. They hide behind no musical
masks and make no pretenses about
what they do. They are the past, present
and future of polka.
Brave Combo's 1995 album "Polka
for a Gloomy World" is nominated for a
Grammy, and the band will play
Rockafellas' tonight.
The Grammy nomination has been
15 years in the waiting. The band formed
in 1979 when disco and new wave were
the newest-latest in musical hipness.
Pink Floyd released "The Wall," Ace was
still in Kiss and the kids from Silverchair
were just coming into the world. All the
while the Texans were playing their
polka.
In its decade and a half) Brave Combo
has done many musical projects besides
releasing CDs. They provided music for
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lived Fox show "Bakersfield PD.," which
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actually an extension of older concepts.
World-wide web browsers have long used i
separate helper applications to play
sound and movies as a way to keep the
main browser from becoming too clunky, i
The newest version of Netscape Navigator
is supporting the use of plug-ins, small
pieces of software that allow Netscape
to perform custom tasks.
One effort gaining a lot of attention
is called OpenDoc. OpenDoc is sponsored
by Component Integration Laboratories,
an independent, non-profit association
whose members include Adobe, Apple,
IBM, Lotus and Novell. Apple is
developing OpenDoc for the Macintosh,
Novell is for Windows and IBM is for
OS/2 and ADC
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Thing." Brave Combo also did music
for the 1994 Olympic performances of
two U.S. ice dancers.
The band marched in the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade under Woody
Woodpecker, who is second only to
Underdog in terms of coolness.
Brave Combo is like C3PO in their
multi-linguistics. They can speak, or at
least sing, in 25 languages. They play
polka songs from Russia, Poland and
Germany with their own original songs
from their Texas-Mexico borderland.
Brave Combo is essentially a party
band with more of a mission and purpose
than old Meat Puppets' albums. The
band hopes to dispel people's ideas that
musical coolness is spoon-fed by MTV
and pop radio.
With a Grammy nomination in the
polka category, their mission may indeed
reach the masses. Brave Combo is an
alternative to Alternative, playing types
of music that obviously had a great effect
on Rancid and The Mighty Mighty
Bosstones.
Instead of watching another mediocre
episode of "Friends," Brave Combo will
be waiting to put the Rockafellas' crowd
into a polka dancing frenzy. Who knows.
If Brave Combo does win the Grammy,
you can say, "I knew them before they
were big."
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keep on talking, but this time his
mouth won't have to he washed out
with soap.
Rivera said Tuesday he's decided
to stick with the talk show game, but
he's changing the rules: no more
sleaze.
"The Geraldo Rivera Show," a
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"Geraldo," begins Sept. 1 and will
run at least through 1999.
"We're getting rid of the sleaze.
It's all history," Rivera told a news
conference at the National Association
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convention.
After a journalism career th&t
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want to be remembered as the guy
who got his nose broken in an oncamera
brawl with skinheads.
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Rickles isn't losing his head. He's just
giving it away.
Rickles, who gave Mr. Potato Head
a voice in the movie Toy Story," has
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for next month's Frank Sinatra
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or Windows, OS/2 or ATX can send email
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ill platforms may want to check out
Apple's web page for basic information
in OpenDoc and its future.
I think it's important to note there
s a competitor to OpenDoc developed
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Cmbedding (OLE) is already being utilized
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Money raised during the Feb. 9
to 10 auction at Marriott's Desert
Springs Resort will benefit the
Barbara Sinatra Children's Center,
founded a decade ago to treat and
counsel abused youngsters.
ASPEN, Colo. ? Lyle Lovett and
Cliff Robertson have taken a downhill
slide.
The country singer and actor were
among about a dozen celebrities and
former Olympic athletes who turned
out Tuesday for the Spirit of Skiing
charity race on Aspen Mountain.
The event raised money for Gilda's
Club, a support group for cancer
victims and their families named for *
comedian Gilda Radner, who died of
ovarian cancer in 1989.
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who have died of cancer," Robertson
said. Lovett added, "cancer touches
everybody's lives."
Lovett made it through the finish
line before he crashed. Robertson
glided through the 15-gate giant
slalom.
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email addresses readers to get more
information about it. Fm not advocating
one technology over another and only
time will tell which will be better for the
end user.
There is already a holy war between
Mac and Windows users. 1 certainly dont
want to get caught up in one between
OpenDoc and OLE!
Marc LaFountain, a journalism senior,
can be e-mailed at lafountainmarc@sc.edu.
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