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...happen to skip the exquisite kumquat cake for dessert (we didn't), just a few blocks away at 15 Youngkang Street is Bing Guan (The Ice House), a small stand that has become a Taipei institution serving shaved ice covered in fruit and cream. Because the line curls around the corner, Xiao Gugu has us hover over a table while she queues up to get the special of the day: flaming red strawberries sliced over thick cream on a bed of finely ground ice. A simple delight no one should miss...
...actress and model Elizabeth Hurley's estranged partner, multimillionaire Hollywood producer Stephen Bing, a complete idiot [PEOPLE, Dec. 17]? Unlike Bing, I would do anything to be a loving husband to Hurley and father to her child. I am a 23-year-old, soon-to-be graduate student. I speak three languages; I am witty, intelligent, well traveled and highly athletic. I can rebuild a carburetor and make a bed. I would not disappoint Hurley. ROBERT IVAN Boulder, Colo...
Just as Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters and Vera Lynn with their warm, fuzzy tunes saw one generation through World War II, the Beatles got the next generation through the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War. All these performers sang different variations on the theme of Here Comes the Sun. George, with his innovative guitar solos, was the backbone of the Beatles. GRACE E. HAMPTON Burbank, Calif...
...song in history ("White Christmas") and the longest-lived pop anthem ("God Bless America"). A one-man synthesis of American assimilation, he helped define American pop with three other gents from all over the map: New York Jew Al Jolson, Omaha German-American Fred Astaire and Tacoma, Wash., Catholic Bing Crosby...
...sung as if by black performers - often by whites in blackface. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is such a song, the name of the bandleader tipping listeners of the day to his race. Berlin wrote numbers popularized in blackface by Eddie Canton ("Mandy"), Al Jolson ("To My Mammy") and Bing Crosby ("Abraham" in "Holiday Inn"). Some of Berlin's coon songs offered what now seems like subversive social commentary. Beneath its jarring title and setting, the 1915 "A Pair of Ordinary Coons" could be making an early argument for people of color (unlike whites) as part of the human majority...