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...Tree, a Rock, a Piece of Wood: The Image of Al Gore in the Poems of Maya Angelou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton 101 | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

Bill Clinton has also been known to party hearty, but in his soul he may be a wonk. He is no more afraid to be square in his musical taste (his favorite sax player -- Kenny G?) than Maya Angelou was to be passionate, politically correct and perfectly understood in her Inaugural Day poem. At 13 balls that night, Clinton was like the college grind who drops in on frat bashes the night before the exam to show he's one of the guys, then sneaks back to his dorm to cram. Perhaps there is as much Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Around the Clock | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...colorfully, if by the numbers. But he falls victim to the danger of movie biography: he elevates Malcolm's importance until the vital historical context is obscured. Malcolm came of age in an era of great black oratory. Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Eldridge Cleaver, Maya Angelou had no power but in their minds and throats and pens. And what force, what rage, what music they found there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elevation of MALCOLM X | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

HEARD MELODIES ARE SWEET. King, the much delayed London musical based on the life of the slain civil rights leader, has some high-powered talent, including opera singer Simon Estes in the title role and Maya Angelou as the principal lyricist. But the show's intention to portray Martin Luther King Jr.'s human side (although not, producers insist, his womanizing) nettled Coretta Scott King, who has legal rights over the commercial use of her husband's image in the U.S. To win back her support, the script is being substantially rewritten, with greater emphasis on King's leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Apr. 16, 1990 | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...Maya Angelou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookends the Maul and the Pear Tree | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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