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Such a minor conquest might recall Critic Percy Hammond's snipe at chorus lines: the knee is a joint, not an entertainment. Yet Rohmer's mandarin tact edges Claire's Knee close to philosophy. The acting reminds one of water spiders, which manage to stay on the surface by never being still enough to sink. Nestor Almendros' photography, with its floating summer vistas, is Proust's Combray come to life. When Aurora suggests that Jerome has become one of her fictions, he seems so, obeying impulses that originate from a mind...
...civil action had been brought by the parents of Delano Middleton, Henry Smith, and Samuel Hammond, each asking...
...Earth!" exclaims the girl as a Hammond globe recedes in one window...
Bessie had a lot more than power, as Hammond soon realized. Subtlety, intuition, presence, drama, compassion-all those and more made her the greatest female blues singer who ever lived. Six years later, on Nov. 24, 1933, when Bessie's star -and fortune-had all but vanished, Hammond, who began working for Columbia Records after two years at Yale, produced what turned out to be her final recording session. It was no easy matter: the Depression had left Columbia virtually bankrupt. All the money that Hammond could raise for the session was $150 for Bessie ($37.50 for each...
...Hammond is embarked on an even bigger rescue mission -the reissue of every one of Bessie's 160 records. Columbia, somewhat wealthier these days, is releasing them in a series of five two-LP albums, each containing 32 songs, each priced at an attractive $5.98. The first album, containing Bessie's first acoustic recordings (1923) and her last electrics (1930-33), has been out five weeks and has already sold more than 35,000 copies. That is an unprecedented feat in the history of reissues, and a surprise to everyone but Hammond. An executive producer with Columbia...