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...Lucille Ball. Kanfer does well by the tumultuous life, dishing with relish such anecdotes as the time Joan Crawford was a guest on The Lucy Show and declared that Ball "could 'outbitch' her any day of the week." But as for the comic art, he's short on insight, he offers little cultural context, and his one original explanation for I Love Lucy's enduring success is just weird: people love it because it is in black and white. "There is something incompatible," Kanfer writes, "about humor and color." (Let's see how Kanfer massages that theory should he ever...
...Competitions, famous mentors, and serious but well- promoted labels like EMI's Debut series prevent crossovers from completely crowding out serious talent. And every so often someone with that indefinable touch of brilliance comes along. Time has chosen three new sensations from the current crop: twentysomethings with the interpretive insight, technique and, yes, charisma to sell records for the next 50 years - and become truly great artists along the way. Lang Lang, 21, China. Lang Lang plays table football the same way he plays piano: irrepressibly. He spins his players upside down in absurdly impossible acrobatics, the ball shoots everywhere...
...meditation. In Zen Buddhist parlance, it is a way to resolve the "great matter" of birth and death, by allowing the practitioner to bear witness to the indestructible, birthless, deathless self-nature that lies at the heart of all existence and then to live in accordance with this insight. HOAG HOLMGREN Nederland, Colo...
...town, a cool dive bar, an obscure, postmodern Croatian novel. As with any secret, though, there is immense desire to spill it, hence the high price of a secret. Once, if, you decide to share, you want to be claimed as the true bearer of the earth-shattering insight. And nothing is worse than sharing a secret that everyone already knows...
...Naropa University Boulder, Colo. --Maharishi University Fairfield, Iowa --Shambhala Mountain Red Feather Lakes, Colo. --Stress Reduction Clinic University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mass. --Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Mass. --Spirit Rock Center Woodacre, Calif. --The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society Northampton, Mass...