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...with drugs or junk food or (of course) reckless driving. But though he was in his mid-20s when he broke out of the race-music ghetto into the rock mainstream, Charles always seemed older. He came to fame grown-up. The hillbilly contingent of proto-rock - Elvis and Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly, all long gone - seemed like slick teenagers busting with musical testosterone. They sang with green urgency about what they wanted to do. Charles sang about what he?d been through. His music, songs, voice spoke of pain and resilience, longing and ecstasy, with...
...Carl Swanson, the New York Magazine contributing editor who wrote about Mitchell last month, says Mitchell’s now-abandoned position at The Times has made him a fascinating subject for many...
...1970s, Stein worked as a speechwriter and lawyer for the presidential administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. (He is described as “crying uncontrollably” on Nixon’s last day in office in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s book The Final Days.) After leaving the White House, he shifted his focus to writing; Stein has published novels, penned screenplays and worked extensively in opinion journalism. As a conservative political pundit, Stein has written for many major publications, including as an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal...
Tribe, who is presently the Ralph S. Tyler Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at HLS, will become the Carl M. Loeb University Professor—a title held by the late Archibald Cox ’34 until 1984—and Whitesides, Mallinckrodt professor of chemistry, will be the first Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor...
...Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles right now and you can see one of the most merciless cultural products of the 1960s, Carl Andre's 6 x 6 Den Haag Steel Lock, a mat of 36 steel plates arranged to form a black square. First assembled in 1968, it remains to this day one of the bluntest things that have ever presumed to radiate the aura of an art object--which may be what was bothering a recent visitor to the show "A Minimal Future? Art as Object: 1958-1968." The art lover, a guy who looked...