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December 7-13, 1995
Wild Bill: How the West was spun--the life and legend of Wild Bill Hickok
Traps: Sexual politics win out in Pauline Chan's new film.
Music
Oasis: Britain's latest export
Springsteen's Ode to Tom Joad: The Boss tries to get back to his working-class roots.
Audiofile: Reviews of new CDs by the Cardigans, Samarai Celestial, Citizen Fish and Wynona Ryders.
Beat Street: Rock supplants the blues in downtown San Jose.
Great Mahlers: Leonid Grin's transcendent double-bill
Art
New York, New York: San Jose Museum's new Whitney show highlights the peaks of New York modernism.
Books
Underrated Qualities: With his epic novel, The Man Without Qualities, newly restored in English, Viennese writer Robert Musil threatens to become the most frequently discussed underrated author.
Theater
One From the Sartre: San Jose Stage's seasonal offering is a philosophical reading of the nativity story
House Guest From Hell: Theatre Works hosts The Man Who Came to Dinner
Toast to Sobriety: A teetotaler celebrates the holiday season with bubbling 'sham'pagne.