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...drawing "from the subconscious," a holdover from surrealist automatism. In a work of the '50s like Coffee, 1956, Diebenkorn smudged over or omitted facial features altogether. Bischoff harmonized roughly sketched figures and their environments in understated, cool-warm canvases like the perfectly composed Orange Sweater, 1955. Weeks, a billboard painter by trade, followed Park in destroying his earlier works, opting instead for abstracted figures rendered in big blocks of color...
Nevertheless, rap -- hip-hop to its true fans -- has grown into the most exciting development in American pop music in more than a decade. Nearly a third of the records currently on Billboard's chart of the top 100 black albums are by rap artists. The biggest pop single of 1989 was a rap song by Tone-Loc, Wild Thing, which sold more than 2 million copies...
Nonetheless, the Uptown controversy underscores a growing concern that big corporations have targeted minority communities as lucrative markets for such products as tobacco, liquor and even junk food. A survey in Baltimore found that 20% of billboard advertising in white communities was devoted to smoking and drinking. In black neighborhoods 76% of the billboards promoted such vices...
...Billboard Charts: The Crimson, which made a brief appearance at number 10 in the NCAA poll last week, has dropped into a 13th-place tie with Northeastern in this week's edition. In the other national poll, published by the Albany Times-Union, Harvard continues to receive votes, but remains several points shy of the standings...
...Prince material is, well, batty. Several of his songs appear in the film, but Prince uses the album to retell the story and recast himself as the Dark Knight's alter ego. If that seems weird, no one seems bothered. The Batman sound track hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, and contains some of Prince's wildest and most soulful work since Purple Rain...