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This year sees both artists release what are possibly their finest albums ever. With Blowback, Tricky, recovered from his hormone disease, has released the album he has apparently avoided making since Maxinquaye. His latest is an instant classic that puts his previous few albums in the context they deserve, proving that all of Tricky’s experiments and claustrophobic introspection were deliberate choices, not the leavings of an artist who has lost his way. Interestingly, he has adopted a low profile on his own album, while reaping the benefits of a bizarre and fantastic series of collaborations, from various...
...have one European sofa, designed by the good Swedes at Ikea, swathed in the finest green cotton. Added bonus: Both armrests are adorned with charming cat-scratch marks...
...knew that pictures were at least as important as words. One reason the Kennedy legacy is so durable is that much of it is pictorial--perfectly suited to the postliterate age. As a part-time Hollywood producer, Joe hired some of the world's finest photographers and technicians to capture his children on film. The stills and motion pictures--of sailing excursions off Cape Cod, touch-football games on windswept lawns--were inventoried, scene by scene, and warehoused against the day when they would prove useful...
...This was Guangzhou's finest, grade A public hospital when it was built 40 years ago. Now, it is one of hundreds of private and state-owned clinics stretching from the boomtown of Shenzhen to the ancient city of Guangzhou that perform tens of thousands of abortions every year. They draw pregnant women from across China, and beyond. "Women come from Hong Kong for treatment all the time," says a tired gynecologist at the Guangzhou Area People's Hospital. "They even fly in from Beijing, Singapore and Macau...
...course the old Washington could be vividly brainless and fraudulent and god-awful, too. Kay Graham seemed to me a very good judge of men in power. She brought a large sense of occasion to problems like the Pentagon papers and Watergate, which were her most dangerous and finest moments...