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Turner, Richie top Grammy Award list
By Don Strausburger
Last year, it was easy. Every
time Michael Jackson's name
was announced as a nominee
for a Grammy award, the
highly coveted prize of the
music industry, Jackson made
the short walk from his front
row seat between Brooke
Shields and Emmanuel Lewis to
the stage to collect another
trophy.
At Tuesday night's
ceremonies, the women -- Tina
Turner, in particular -- took
center stage as the Grammy
awards were presented in
Hollywood.
Turner reigned supreme cap
turing four Grammies, in
cluding three for her hit,
"What's Love Got To Do With
It," in the following categories:
Best Pop Vocal, Female;
Humor
Mushrooms are disgusting
By Neil Myers
When you were small, your
parents knew what you should
eat. They told you to eat your
peas, your asparagus, your
liver. You remember how it
was. Maybe they even forced
on you the arch enemy of
youthful palates everywhere:
Brussel sprouts.
It was all done in the name
of two things -- nutrition and
the starving children in India,
who would have given their eye
teeth for a nice helping of
Brussel sprouts. Maybe you
swallowed the whole story --
and the sprouts -- and maybe
you didn't.
There was one item,
however, that my parents never
tried to make me love, and that
was mushrooms. I suppose they
felt a little sheepish telling an
innocent five-year-old that a
nice fat mushroom was what
starving Indian children dream
about.
But I think there was more to
it than that. I think my parents
knew something that I would
take years to learn: mushrooms
Record of the Year, which is
awarded to both the artist and
producer; and Song of the
Year, which is presented to the
songwriter(s).
She also won the Rock
Vocal, Female category for her
follow-up hit, "Better Be Good
ear, many
d anywhere
between two and four entries
capable of winning in other
years.
In selecting Album of the
Year, the industry represen
tatives who vote had to pick
between these album:
- "Born In The U.S.A." by
Bruce Springsteen;
- "Can't Slow Down" by
Lionl Richie;
- "Private Dancer" by Tina
Turner;
- "Purple Rain" by Prince
and the Revolution;
- "She's So Unusual" by
Cyndi Lauper.
Lionel Richie captured the
award in what could become a
controversial selection con
sidering "Purple Rain" spent
nearly half of 1984 as the
number 1 album on the charts.
are disgusting.
I was recently having dinner
with a group of friends. It was
the end of a long day of work,
and we were chatting casually,
unwinding and enjoying the
relaxed atmosphere of a plea
sant restaurant. When the
waitress came to take our
orders, one of my companions
chose shrimp. Another had
tacos. I, unfortunately, had to
be different. I chose the
spaghetti.
When our food arrived we all
dug in. How were the shrimp,
I asked? Fine. The tacos? Fine.
My spaghetti was fine, too.
The pasta was reasonable.
The tomato sauce was zesty.
The meatballs were meaty. But
what was that tangy, rubber
stuff?
Uh oh. Mushrooms.
I'm sorry, but there's no way
you can convince me that eating
a fungus is a good thing. It's
bad enough that mushrooms
taste like rotten shoe leather.
The idea of eating something
that grows on decaying plants
and is related to athlete's foot
Springsteen spent much of that
time at number 2 behind
Prince's movie soundtrack.
However, Springsteen won
the first grammy of his 11 year
career by capturing the Rock
Male, Vocal category for
"Dancing In The Dark."
Prince and the Revolution
also won their share of awards
by walking away with the Best
Original Movie Soundtrack,
and Best Rock Performance by
a duo or group for the song,
"Purple Rain."
Prince's songwriting ability
earned him a third Grammy,
Rhythm & Blues Song of the
Year, for Chaka Khan's
remake of "I Feel For You,"
which he wrote in 1979.
Several other performers
won multiple awards for their
recent work.
The Pointer Sisters, like
Turner, made a spectacular
comeback by receiving Gram
mies for Best Pop Vocal by a
duo or group -- "Jump (For
My Love)" -- and Best Vocal
Arrangement for "Automatic.
The song, "I Feel For You"
payed off twice as Chaka Khan
took the Best R&B Perfor-
is the clincher.
And I don't want to hear
about nutrition, either. Certain
kinds of mold are nutritious,
too, but nobody stirs mold in
to his spaghetti sauce.
I went on with my dinner
that night and actually had a
fairly good time. But I gave up
on the spaghetti -- and the
mushrooms.
think there ought to be a
regulation administered by the
Food and Drug Adthinistration
requiring restaurant owners to
include a warning statement
prominently on their menus. It
could read something like this:
"Warning: This item contains
mushrooms, a fungus, which
may cause serious taste bud
distress and other unpleasant
side effects, and have been
found to cause bemused looks
of disbelief when fed to
laboratory rats."
Better than a warning, let me
get rid of a long-standing guilt
and solve the mushropm pro
blem at the same time. Send my
mushrooms to those starving
children in India.
mance for a female in addition
to Prince's writing award.
Lionel Richie, besides his
Best Album honors, received
accolades along with his pro
ducer/partner, James Anthony
Carmichael, and David Foster,
of Chicago fame, in the even
ing's only tie, awarded to the
Producers of the Year.
Cyndi Lauper surprised no
one in being named Best New
Artist, despite very respectable
competition from Frankie Goes
To Hollywood. Lauper's
On-sob training now
almost like college
(CPS)--Students at
McDonald's Hamburger
University. in Oak Brook, Il
linois, live in McLodges and
earn degrees in
Hamburgerology.
But they also work with
state-of-the art technology, en
dure rigorous training in
management, communictions
and business skills, and can
earn up to 18 credits toward a
food service management
associates degree.
And slowly but surely, a re
cent report on how much com
panies spend to re-educated col
lege grads concludes, coporate
schools like Hamburger U. are
becoming more and more like
colleges.
McDonald's is one of some
400 corporations spending
millins each year on employee
education programs to fill in
the gaps left by traditional
education, and to provide
specialized training for specific
jobs.
"The typical college graduate
has accrued a degree and a
good academic education," ex
plains Donald Conover,
spekesman for AT&T's Cor
porate Education Center in
New Jersey.
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album, "She's So Unusual,"
won the Grammy for Best
Album Jacket.
Even though the 1984 Gram
my ceremony belonged to
Michael Jackson, he was not
left out in the cold in 1985.
His long video (it must be
over 24 minutes to qualify),
"Making Michael Jackson's
Thriller," easily defeated
minimal opposition giving him
yet another Grammy to put on
his shelf.
But students "need a transi
tion from a broad college base
to the more specific applica
tions necessary to do a job," he
adds.
Corporate courses range
from high school basics to
specialized operations training,
and students include dropouts
and PhDs.
"The age of high-tech has
moved in rapidly," says Nell
Eurich, author of the recent
Carnegie Institute study of cor
porate classrooms. "It's
necessary to educate workers in
advanced information, to give
additional instruction constant
ly.,,
"It's an extension of the life
long learning concept," ex
plains Jim Pavlakis, developer
of Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone's corporate educa
tion program. "Even if shcools
are doing a beautiful job,
employees need opportunities
to avoid job obsolescense."
Nearly 8,000 of C&T's
30,000 employees currently use
one of three corporate educa
tion plans: in-house or home
studey courses in specific job
training and basic education, or
tuition aid, providing access to
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