Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bakal brothers, Eddie and Jake, the road to the American dream runs dead center through one of the most lethal neighborhoods in Detroit. The brothers, who moved there from Iraq in the mid-1970s, own a convenience store at the intersection of Seven Mile and Van Dyke roads, an easy rifle shot from streets lined with abandoned houses and open-air drug markets. To look at their tidy store, swaddled in bulletproof glass, surrounded by surveillance cameras and equipped with a small arsenal in back, one would think they too were in the middle...
Here and elsewhere in this excellent show, one sees Van Dyke chasing the Tudor stiffness out of painting, inventing the conventions of future English portraiture, the tropes on which Gainsborough, Reynolds and even Sargent would continually draw. The court he served was the most sophisticated one England would ever have. He did not outlive it; it was collapsing as he lay dying at the end of 1641. But Van Dyck had already changed English art decisively, and much for the better...
...Sondheim than Springsteen, is from Tokyo Rose, an elfin but savage ten-song essay on the growing misalliance of Japan and America. The record is not only big themed, it is big fun. That combination of intellectual ambition and musical serendipity can be recognized as the work of Van Dyke Parks by his legion of . . . oh, say, 782 fans. We're not talking Milli Vanilli here. But we are on the subject of someone rather terrific...
...born in Hattiesburg, Miss., during the waning days of World War II. His father was the founder of Dick Parks and the White Swan Serenaders, and when not being what his son calls "an avocational musician," he pursued psychiatry as a colleague of Karl Menninger's. Young Van Dyke landed his first professional job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1951 ("in the boys' choir") and has been doing unexpected things ever since. He acted with Grace Kelly in The Swan in 1955. A decade later he was lodged at Warner Bros. Records as a cultural curiosity...