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...name is Abbey Lincoln, but she also answers to Aminata Moseka when the spirit moves her. She started out as Anna Marie Wooldridge, then became Gaby Lee and, for a time, Mrs. Max Roach. If all these shifts in appellation suggest a life that has gone through many changes, that's hardly the whole story. They also indicate that this remarkable singer's managers have tried several times to reinvent her to suit themselves. Talking with her now, it is difficult to believe such a self-consciously independent woman would permit anyone to tinker with her name, much less something...
...company brought its drug to market, it set the price extraordinarily high, claiming that the process of harvesting the enzyme from human placental tissue is expensive, a claim challenged by a growing number of Gaucher's patients. "This is the worst illustration of corporate greed I've seen," says Abbey Meyers, executive director of the National Organization for Rare Disorders. Responding to Meyers, Genzyme's chairman of the board, Henri Termeer, says, "It's not a matter of greed. It's a high-cost product. There is no flexibility on price here...
...dead as a systematic and continuous source of Black cinema, occasional isolated independent films would attack the social constructs so easily skated over by the integrated-but-trite Hollywood fodder. Cinema V put out "Nothing But a Man" (1963), starring Ivan Dixon (of Hongan's Heroes fame) and Abbey Lincoln, a film portraying the difficulties of family life in the segregated South. The well-developed characters showed that stories about African-Americans could be done without reducing the complexity of their lives to easy formulas. As the glitter-ridden elevator-shoed '70s dawned, the seminal "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song...
Tory M.P. John Bowis spoke for many when he said, "It would be absurd to think of two royal processions coming from different directions to the Abbey for a coronation. If it is not possible to have a happy monarch and family, I think we should skip a generation and wait for William." The succession issue lies at the heart of the monarchy; for the institution to survive, it must be stable. If the Waleses pursue other romantic interests, as is likely, the Windsors may reel into even thornier problems than they faced...
Instead, set designer John Conklin evokes a gray, gloomy, decaying world (much like present-day Britain, in fact) that is literally falling apart. The centerpiece is a crumbling Ravenswood castle -- nevermore! -- that conjures the shades of doomed fictional redoubts from the Gibichungs' hall to Carfax Abbey, replete with scattered coffins, drowning pools and blood-red skies. So powerful are the designs that, probably for the first time in Lucia's history, one leaves humming the scenery...