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...chance to engender goodwill also prompted Time-Life Video to produce a taped account of the week's highlights, with the profits going to the Inaugural Committee, while corporate cousin HBO is paying for the right to air a Sunday-night special featuring performances by such stars as Aretha Franklin and Jack Nicholson. Scores of companies have been asked to underwrite everything from private parties for the ascendant clans with "democrat" in their names (the Democratic Leadership Council, the Democratic Mainstream Committee) to the "hospitality suites" in Washington hotels where guests will never be beyond the reach of a nightcap...
...Ball was held in the same convention center as the New England Ball, which played host to the Harvard Krokodiloes and Radcliffe Pitches as well as Little Feat and Aretha Franklin...
...year's Grammy nominees will be performing (gratis, of course, as is everyone) and that Michael Jackson needs a call. Thomason is still twisting the arms of CBS, Time Warner and Disney to find out what they will pay to telecast the events, including gala performances by Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Bill Cosby, a reunited Fleetwood Mac, a vast parade with two Elvis impersonators and a lawn-chair precision drill team. How did Thomason end up here? "Obviously, I was out of the room when Bill decided," he jokes wearily, pressing his bandaged hand to his bandaged forehead...
...1960s and '70s, the soul sounds of Detroit and Philadelphia were the glory of American pop. From the funk styles of James Brown to the fervid testifying of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye, soul music was something you could not only hear but also feel: rhythm without blues, emotion without sentimentality. Then in the '80s a few big record companies discovered they could rack up sales by substituting hyperactive beats and overdressed arrangements for soul's honest impact. Subtle vocal stylists gave way to crooners; soul gave way to dance music, marketed mainly to black listeners. Even powerful singers like...
Picture this: A female while student threatens to charge Alpha Kappa Alpha, the black sorority, with discrimination unless they accept her as a member. Fearing trouble, they comply. Once admitted, however, the white student insists that she will never feel accepted unless they take down the pictures of Aretha Franklin and Malcolm X in the sorority house and replace them with pictures of Pat Boone, Doris Day, and other quintessential WAPs...