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LAURIE BERKNER: UNDER A SHADY TREE If you're Sting's or Madonna's child, you want Mom or Dad to play at your birthday party, right? Wrong. You want toddler-set diva Berkner. A kind of sippy-cup Sheryl Crow, Berkner inhabits a kid's curious perspective in her lyrics and pens folk-pop melodies that bear repeated-- very repeated--listenings...
...decades, African Americans had not only remembered Lincoln kindly but also invoked him as a present-day force. "The rise of Jim Crow segregation in the South," explains Allen C. Guelzo, "occurred hand in hand with the efforts of Southerners to downplay the significance of slavery both for the war and for Lincoln, and blacks battled back by keeping slavery and Lincoln's image as the Great Emancipator at the forefront of the nation's memory." A common folktale in the mid--20th century South--which Leadbelly poignantly rendered in a song he recorded in the early 1940s...
...million sq. ft., or about as much as 150 Empire State Buildings. The glut has rocked the real estate business and the financial system by sending rents and property values plummeting. "We have overbuilt in this country on an unprecedented scale," says J. McDonald Williams, managing partner of Trammell Crow, the largest U.S. developer...
...that Reagan and Gorbachev definitely are and definitely are not going to accomplish anything substantive at this presummit summit. Most recent memory: the underground Broadway disco in Reykjavík, an Icelandic rock group called Strax, led by a woman with her black hair done up to look like a crow in flight, singing about U.S. and Soviet journalists vying for scoops...
...only does he integrate the art into his different roles in life—educational director, composer, father—Wiprud also experiments with his compositional style. His catalogue includes humorous pieces like “Crow Magnum,” one of his most performed pieces that features a solo percussionist and fez-wearing stuffed crows...