Word: funked
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...will almost certainly kill you, perhaps within months - is worse still. Which is why it requires no great effort of the imagination to believe the statistic that at least 3 in 10 people who receive the latter diagnosis spend much of the balance of their life in a funk. "The fear that I have with this cancer," says Shinta, 48, whose disease has spread to her sternum and the lining of her lungs, "is the process of death. I don't want it to be long. I don't want my family to have to cope with...
DIED. RICK JAMES, 56, early '80s funk icon known for his outrageous fashion sense and a troubled personal life that included a five-year prison sentence for assault and a 10year addiction to cocaine; of natural causes; in Los Angeles. His infectious 1981 single Super Freak launched him to superstardom, but his career was soon derailed by drugs. Comeback efforts in the '90s were sidelined by a stroke and hip-replacement surgery...
...DIED. RICK JAMES, 56, early '80s funk icon known for his outrageous fashion sense and a sordid personal life that included a five-year prison sentence for assault; of undetermined causes; in Los Angeles. His infectious 1981 single Super Freak launched him to superstardom, but his career was soon derailed by a decade-long cocaine addiction. Comeback efforts in the '90s were sidelined by a stroke and hip-replacement surgery...
...larger-than-life clay sculptures of men and women pushed the boundaries of the refined ceramic medium of the 1950s and '60s; of colon cancer; in Oakland, Calif. Her 9-ft.-high, robust, cartoonish figures--a fusion of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and what was later known as California Funk--were comical but politically pointed: a 2002 work, Man Kicking World, shows a seated man pushing a massive globe with his foot...
...entire first half of Scissor Sisters is nearly flawless, and impressively diverse too. There's an exuberant dance cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb that sounds like New Order fronted by Andy Gibb. Tits on the Radio is a disco-funk rant about the cultural sterilization of New York City. What keeps the whole thing from turning into an orgy of deja vu is Shears. As he struts his way through the material, he radiates a completely original kind of magnetism. He's sexual, commanding and totally goofy--like a man who can't believe his hairbrush and mirror...