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...could pay him the usual backhand compliment directed at an enduring Hollywood icon and say that he played--brilliantly played--Jimmy Stewart. But that ignores the pioneering vocal eccentricity, the stammer that miraculously made every line seem as if it had just occurred to him; he was Method before Method was cool. And to say Stewart played himself hardly does justice to the near Shakespearean breadth of his characters and performances. The mannerisms evolved; the man grew...
...spirit of Ailey, the brilliant Texas-born dancer and choreographer who, guided by the central tenet "Dance came from the people--we must take it back to the people," formed his company in 1958 as an incubator for contemporary black dance and nurtured it into a major American cultural icon. "There are times on stage when I speak to Alvin before I perform and ask him to guide me," said Nasha Thomas, 35, an 11-year veteran of the company. At the first performance, Thomas drew a thunderous ovation with her wrenching 16-minute solo performance of Cry, the dance...
...underground tattoo artists told of their efforts to legalize the practice of body art, and a 16-year-old Oregonian recounted her hard life as a single mother. "Generation X actively pursues the deflation of the ideal," says Karen Ritchie in her book, Marketing to Generation X. "No icon and certainly no commercial is safe from their [Xers'] irony, their sarcasm or their remote control. These are the tools with which Generation X keeps the world in perspective...
...Icon of Harvard Square and the only 24-hour eatery in the area, The Tasty is endangered by plans to renovate the crumbling Reed Block building that it calls home, now abandoned by The Wursthaus, which closed in October after 80 years...
...Click over to InfoSpace, "the Ultimate Directory," whose People Search Directory has the home address of everybody with a listed phone number, all 112 million of them. Type in your name, and out pops a map of your neighborhood, with a little X marking your residence. Click on the icon to get written directions to your house...