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...this molten singer-songwriter has just made her first album, Union, a diary of dashed love and stubborn hope set into layers of melody that will never let the memory loose. Her voice, bold and smoky, has the heft of Joan Armatrading's, a hint of the spiritual urgency of Van Morrison's and, all on her own, power to burn. Union, heard even for the first time, sounds eerie and immediately familiar too. Childs herself puts it perfectly in Dreamer: "You're the voice of a dream...
Ever since John Kennedy carried Texas in 1960 with Lyndon Johnson on the ticket, the political heft of the vice-presidential nominee has been shrouded in myth. These days, Democrats talk as if a Southern running mate would help Dukakis transcend his New England pedigree. But rarely has the bottom half of the ticket packed such a punch. Political Scientist Steven Rosenstone of the University of Michigan, who has studied state-by-state presidential returns since 1948, says that at best a vice-presidential nominee can add about 2% to the ticket in his home state. Period. Richard Nixon grasped...
Though the power of back-room bosses has been broken, other factions and interest groups manipulate the rules for their own benefit. What should be a deliberative search for candidates of heft becomes a demeaning marathon. What should help unify the party becomes a divisive struggle. Talented leaders remain on the sidelines rather than confront the Kafkaesque process. Long before voters focus on the people and issues involved, the dynamics of the nominating cycle are established on the basis of "expectations" and "momentum," with the press in charge of calibrating the standards. It is, in the words of Congressman Morris...
...accurate, San Francisco has only 725,000 residents. But the images of cable cars climbing past high-rises, a densely settled Chinatown and a skyline packed tightly into a nest of hills suggest a metropolis of greater heft. In recent years, however, the city's problems have fallen into sharper and more painful focus...
Sondheim's intellectuality is reflected in his choice of subjects, far weightier than the heft of the average straight play on Broadway, let alone the merry moonshine of past musicals: the birth of pointillist painting (Sunday in the Park); Commodore Perry's opening of Japan to the West (Pacific Overtures, 1977); a murderous barber with a Marxist-sounding class grievance and a woman companion who cooks his victims in pies (Sweeney Todd, 1979); the impossibility of marriage (Company, 1970); and the decline of the chorus-girl kick line as a metaphor for the loss of American innocence (Follies, 1971). Like...