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DIED. AKIRA KUROSAWA, 88, cinematic visionary whose visceral and visually compelling films integrated Japanese culture into the global movie idiom and inspired a generation of Western directors; in Tokyo. Rashomon (1950), the tale of a murder seen four ways, first brought him fame outside Japan, its title now a byword for the fragility of truth. Even as his samurai epics like Throne of Blood (1957) and Ran (1985) borrowed from the West, particularly Shakespeare, movies outside Japan borrowed from him: The Seven Samurai is at the heart of The Magnificent Seven; The Hidden Fortress is concealed in Star Wars...
...including Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald and R.-and-B. singers like Aretha Franklin. Although Holiday, who counted Bessie Smith among her most important musical influences, was not a blues singer per se, her music was deeply rooted in the blues tradition. As a jazz musician working primarily with the idiom of white popular song, Holiday used the blues tradition to inject suggestions of perspectives more complicated than those the lyrics themselves contained...
Louis Armstrong was so much, in fact, that the big bands sounded like him, their featured improvisers took direction from him, and every school of jazz since has had to address how he interpreted the basics of the idiom--swing, blues, ballads and Afro-Hispanic rhythms. While every jazz instrumentalist owes him an enormous debt, singers as different as Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Marvin Gaye have Armstrong in common as well. His freedom, his wit, his discipline, his bawdiness, his majesty and his irrepressible willingness to do battle with deep sorrow...
...doing it on someone else's terms. Instead, Silberstein is becoming an entrepreneur, starting a new company, Idiom Technologies, Inc., with several college friends...
...employ a tired idiom, a picture's worth a thousand words, and Salts Restaurant boasts a picture that perfectly encapsulates its essence. Hanging on the warm, yellow stuccoed walls is a small painting of a woman, muted by broad impressionistic brushstrokes. Rather than sitting demurely at a picnic in 19th century Paris, however, the lady is dressed stylishly in black, perched on an elegant futon. She has a telephone cradled in one hand and a cigarette dangling from the other. The image is a perfect one for Salts, a place where haute-bourgeois society meets its modern yuppie analog...