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Some artists sing the song, and some let the song sing them. For Aretha Franklin, the song has always been incidental - a cheap vehicle for her amazing voice. Sinéad O'Connor, who possesses a completely different but equally distinctive talent, reveals herself in the lyrics she performs. Now both have terrific new CDs that showcase their strengths. With just one song, Respect, Franklin introduced feminism to popular music, but she has also sung about lesser things convincingly - like riding on a freeway of love in a pink Cadillac and being drawn through destiny to duet partner George Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing It Their Way | 9/14/2003 | See Source »

...cause permanent brain damage and Parkinson's disease. The scientists said that the monkeys used in the research had been given methamphetamine - commonly known as speed - instead. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... A Job with Security Britain's domestic intelligence service MI5 wants you. The normally secretive organization placed an ad in Police Review magazine for static surveillance officers to monitor CCTV footage. Potential spies must be "perceptive enough to spot the smallest details." In return, the service is offering 320,500 a year and a "relaxed, friendly and supportive working environment." Recruits would also benefit, the ad says, "from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 9/14/2003 | See Source »

...suits, Deutsche is leaving town anyway, moving across the river to New Jersey. Turkish Pop Culture A new Turkish soda is giving Coca-Cola and Pepsi a fizzy fit - with a little help from U.S. foreign policy. Since Cola Turka hit local shelves two months ago, a high-profile ad campaign has been stoking nationalist sentiment. Starring Chevy Chase as a confused New Yorker struggling to understand why anyone who sips the drink becomes instantly Turkish - sprouting a moustache, cooking stuffed grape leaves and bursting into rousing national song - the launch coincided with the heavy-handed seizure of Turkish soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Watch | 9/7/2003 | See Source »

...many totally perfect, gorgeous hair-body-skin-face-teeth can you see and still have it spark your interest?" asks Trey Laird, president and executive creative director of Laird + Partners, the ad agency that handles Donna Karan. "There's something about a real person--and you can say celebrities aren't real people, but they are. They just happen to have a very visible job. They're not perfect, they have a life, and they make it a little more emotional, give it more of an interest, more of an intrigue. It makes it real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could They Be Next Donna, Calvin and Ralph? | 8/28/2003 | See Source »

...architecture can be when art comes first." But the place also introduced him to a circle of friends who would go on to become the loosely affiliated group that the British call the YBAs--Young British Artists. Cultural bomb throwers, most of them collected and promoted by the wealthy ad executive Charles Saatchi, they tumbled loudly into America four years ago in the "Sensation" show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Case | 8/28/2003 | See Source »

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