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...DIED. Katherine Dunham, 96, anthropologist and choreographer who founded the first black modern-dance company and influenced artists from Alvin Ailey to James Dean with her Dunham Technique, a blend of Afro-Caribbean folk, classical and modern movement; in New York City. The exacting "Miss D" worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces?1951's Southland depicted a lynching?that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where...
DIED. Katherine Dunham, 96, anthropologist and choreographer who founded the first black modern-dance company and influenced artists from Alvin Ailey to James Dean with her Dunham Technique, a blend of Afro-Caribbean folk, classical and modern movement; in New York City. The exacting "Miss D" worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces--1951's Southland depicted a lynching--that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where...
JOAN BAEZ, folk singer with Hispanic roots, from a makeshift treehouse in a 50-ft. walnut, where she and two other activists camped out to protest the planned sale to developers of a community garden used by Latino immigrants in South Los Angeles...
...switch to rock was fine with this Dylan fan; I loved rock 'n roll as much as folk and was exhilarated to think of the impact Dy;an could have in bringing an adolescent musical form to maturity. But by 1966 he wasn't having nearly as much fun making music as I was listening to it. The kid who wanted to be Elvis could now imagine dying like Buddy Holly: "You end up crashing in a private plane in the mountains of Tennessee. Or Sicily. ... I just wanna go home." He went home to upstate New York and crashed...
Cannes is a convention city, which means the people coming for the world's largest movie conference, the Cannes Film Festival, are in their seats for the morning's major screening by 8:15. Cannes is also a Riviera resort, which means the town comes alive at night. Debonair folk in evening clothes stroll the Croisette until just before dawn. The discos (including the one directly under our hotel room) blast their pounding sounds nonstop to 3 or 4 a.m. (which may explain why the prose of this night owl is sometimes on the jagged side). Critics, who want...