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...trend comes to a halt with the release of his ambitious new album, All Eyez on Me--the first double album in rap history. A year ago, Shakur was convicted of sexually abusing a female fan; now, thanks to recent court decisions that allowed him to be freed while he appeals his conviction, he's out on $1.4 million bail, and he's angrier than ever. As the title of his highly anticipated album brags, all eyes are indeed on him--and it's not a pretty sight...
Homer started out as a freelance illustrator for Harper's Weekly during the Civil War, painting scenes of life in the Union army. After the war he continued to document ordinary life in a variety of settings; his subjects included the struggle of the freed slaves, mothers and children in domestic life, and the beauty and power of the American landscape. His paintings allow their subjects to speak for themselves; Homer avoids using painting for social commentary...
Homer also spent many years painting the progress of the freed slaves in their new status. "The Carnival" shows a young black man dressing up in a colorful, festive outfit for a carnival in his small town, dramatizing the inability of the freed slaves to blend into American society. "Sunday Morning in Virginia," an inspirational scene of newly literate children reading to their grandmother, is a hopeful comment on the power that literacy gave to the freed slaves in the South...
Though faced with the prospect of new phone-company rivals, cable companies had reason to cheer. Not only will they be allowed to venture into the local phone business, they will also be freed from any limit on how much they can charge for cable service. All federal rate caps (removed by Congress in 1984, only to be restored eight years later) will be phased out in three years--sooner in smaller markets...
...musical. It saw no reason why song and dance shouldn't reflect the realities of everyday life--and at the same time illuminate our everynight dream life. On Broadway it was Rodgers and Hammerstein, abetted by Agnes de Mille, who led this movement. In Hollywood it was producer Arthur Freed's "unit" at MGM, staffed mainly by sophisticated refugees from the East that carried the torch--and found in Kelly the dancer and choreographer who could embody their convictions...