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...band politics and shared songwriting credits. No track on “Fox Confessor” is more representative of Case’s solo aesthetic than the album’s penultimate song “At Last.” The title is an allusion to the Ella Fitzgerald torch song of the same name, but Case does not cover it so much as pay it homage. Her vocals channel Fitzgerald’s composed intensity, but her lyrics forsake the saccharine literalism of the original for Dylanesque poetic abstraction. She sings: “And if death...
...black women haven’t been present and active the entire time. Contrary to widely held opinion, black women have made huge contributions to American history that go well beyond simply giving birth to and supporting black men. Women such as Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, and Shirley Chisholm (whom I’m ashamed to admit that I myself never heard of until I came to college) each made complex contributions to the social and political history of the United States. Thanks to Wells, the issue of lynching was forced to the front of the national conscience. Baker...
TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY BBC AMERICA, FEB. 11 AND 12, 8 P.M. E.T. This wistful mini-series, based on a 1935 Patrick Hamilton novel, is less love triangle than unrequited love triangle. Plain, earnest pub worker Ella (Sally Hawkins) pines for naive, literary barman Bob (Bryan Dick), who in turn pines for Jenny (Zo Tapper), a streetwalker who pines for her former self, her lost opportunities and her ability to love. Streets is a keen-eyed, elegantly acted noir drama of heartbreak in alleys and darkened movie houses...
...idea to go on live TV under the influence of mind-altering drugs. When I got the call asking me to talk about a TIME story on that night's late news, I was playing host to a 5-year-old's birthday party, with attendees who included Ella, Ella, Stella, Ale (pronounced Ellay), Elee (same) and Belle, the princess I had rented. I don't know if my suggestibility was caused by a surfeit of medication?in this case, Ritalin?or of liquid consonants, but I agreed...
...first glance, Ella Shapiro-Deisenhouse ’07 looks just like your average Harvard student...