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...fewer than a dozen people were making sure Sly Stone got to the Grammys on time. ?Are we late?? asked the 61-year-old songwriter and 1960s icon, from under a motorcycle helmet. ?I thought we were right on time.? It was noon, five hours before the start of 48th Annual Grammy Awards telecast, and Stone sat, placidly, in the trailer car of a stretch purple motorcycle in the parking lot of a Beverly Hills mini-mall. Several hours later, the man known as the J.D. Salinger of funk emerged onstage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles...
Case in point: Paul Barman, a graduate of Brown University, has recently become a quirky hip-hop icon as the protégé of legendary De La Soul DJ Prince Paul. And he did it in much the way that Ferguson and Legend have described—self-recording his three EPs and an LP and developing a cult fanbase...
...Mart and Target have captured the bargain hunters. The stores that tried to appeal to a broad middle-income audience, as Macy's hopes to, have struggled. Former No. 1 retailer Sears merged with former No. 1 discounter Kmart to try to right two listing ships. Saks, a luxury icon suffering from mismanagement, misfired in its attempt to go down-market and has put its more lowbrow 40-store Parisian chain on the block...
...DIED. BETTY FRIEDAN, 85, icon of postwar American liberalism who wrote the 1963 best seller The Feminine Mystique, which explored the "sense of dissatisfaction" among midcentury women who "made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children," while secretly wondering, "Is this all?"; in Washington. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Friedan-whose mother quit her newspaper job to be a housewife-was once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made...
DIED. BETTY FRIEDAN, 85, icon of postwar American liberalism who wrote the 1963 best seller The Feminine Mystique, which explored the "sense of dissatisfaction" among midcentury women who "made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children," while secretly wondering, "Is this all?"; in Washington. Born in Peoria, Ill., Friedan--whose mother quit her newspaper job to be a housewife-- was once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made...