Word: flacks
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University President Lawrence H. Summers this week blasted a British boycott of Israeli academics—drawing flack from a familiar foe and applause from his allies...
...easily get on a senator's website. After Senate Republican leaders held a press conference for bloggers in March, a post on the website of the conservative magazine Human Events complained that "dumping a bunch of talking points on me only makes me angry. I?m not a flack...
CYRUS CHESTNUT GENUINE CHESTNUT What makes Chestnut the best jazz pianist of his generation is a willingness to abandon notes and to play space. He rescues Roberta Flack's The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Bread's truly horrible AM-radio hit If from years of accumulated treacle by tinkling out the barest hint of melody, confidently letting each note float around until it resolves itself in your head. He's equally adept at spelling his minimalism with funk on the original Ellen's Song, and closes with a solo version of Lord, I Give Myself...
...VANDROSS, 54, winner of eight Grammy Awards whose heart-tugging ballads made him one of the most celebrated R. and B. singers of his generation; of complications arising from a massive stroke in 2003; in Edison, New Jersey. In 1981, after years backing such artists as David Bowie, Roberta Flack and Carly Simon, he released the first of 15 well-received solo albums, which included such R. and B. hits as Give Me the Reason, Here and Now and Love Won't Let Me Wait. But he longed for a chart-topping crossover, which he achieved in 2003 with...
...LUTHER VANDROSS, 54, winner of eight Grammys whose heart-tugging ballads made him one of the most celebrated R&B singers of his generation; of undisclosed causes, two years after suffering a massive stroke; in Edison, N.J. In 1981, after years of backing artists like David Bowie and Roberta Flack, he released the first of 15 well-received solo albums, which included such R&B hits as Give Me the Reason, Here and Now and Love Won't Let Me Wait. But he longed for a chart-topping crossover and in 2003 achieved it with the starkly intimate Dance with...