Word: calling
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...been met with fury and defiance. The elementary school principal quit when she was forced to let teachers go and scale back art and music classes. Last year the Inn at Willow Pond, a major corporate conference center, gave $25,000 to charity. This year, when the charities called, "we told 'em to call Montpelier--all that money went to Act 60 taxes," says owner Ron Bauer. Even angrier are affluent parents who moved to postage-stamp towns in part for the excellent schools. "This is Marxism," howls novelist John Irving, whose son is a Dorset kindergartner. "It's leveling...
...lawyer's attacks on Starr did nothing to hasten the day when his client could enter an agreement to offer testimony that might put the President in a bind. By contrast, just minutes after they signed up to be Lewinsky's new team, Cacheris and Stein paid a courtesy call on Starr, with whom Stein had worked during the Senate's harassment investigation of Bob Packwood. In return, Starr's office said nice things about them. The prospect of a new round of negotiations...
American music, like America itself, seems too democratic for any title to endure. Ask almost any rapper or alternative rocker if Elvis is the King of Rock, and all you'll get is a sneer. Michael Jackson likes to call himself the King of Pop, but we all know the true king of pop is whoever has the No. 1 album in a given week. All told, there's only one monarch in music whose title has never rung false and still holds up--and that's Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul...
From the moment she sang Respect--that still famous call for recognition and appreciation--Franklin helped complete the task begun by Billie Holiday and others, converting American pop from a patriarchal monologue into a coed dialogue. Women were no longer just going to stand around and sing about broken hearts; they were going to demand respect, and even spell it out for you if there was some part of that word you didn't understand. As Franklin declares on Do Right Woman--Do Right Man: "A woman's... not just a plaything/ She's flesh and blood just like...
Women, especially, listen to Winfrey because they feel as if she's a friend. Although Phil Donahue pioneered the format she uses (mike-holding host moves among an audience whose members question guests), his show was mostly what I call "report-talk," which often typifies men's conversation. The overt focus is on information. Winfrey transformed the format into what I call "rapport-talk," the back-and-forth conversation that is the basis of female friendship, with its emphasis on self-revealing intimacies. She turned the focus from experts to ordinary people talking about personal issues. Girls' and women...