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• Where Have You Gone, Oscar Hammerstein? From Show Boat to Sondheim is a long way down.
  Mark Steyn Dec. 5, 1997
  
• Our Last Cigarette The fading glories of the smoking song.
  Mark Steyn July 17, 1997
  
• Bowie Bonds Rock 'n' roll officially stops being revolutionary.
  Mark Steyn May 8, 1997
  
• Hail Caesar! Cornball classics from a Tin Pan Alley legend.
  Mark Steyn Jan. 16, 1997