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What the World Needs Now Is Burt, Sweet Burt

By KEVIN J.H. DETTMAR

Fifteen years ago, no one -- not even Jeane Dixon, fortuneteller to the stars -- could have predicted the late-90's comeback of Burt Bacharach. Even now, in the new millennium, it just might be that he can reintroduce us to the language of the heart, after our long sojourn in the land of postmodern irony.

During the 1960's, while the British...

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