Word: janet
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Almost every art has its technology. Painting is an ancient mud process. Welded-steel sculpture required the invention of the welding torch. Janet Cardiff's breakthrough work required--the Walkman. Ten years ago, while thinking about a new artwork, she was walking through a cemetery in the Canadian town of Banff, reading into a tape recorder the names she found on old gravestones. At one point, she rewound the tape, then replayed it to find where she had left off. That is how she first had the disorienting experience of hearing herself describe a walk while she was still...
According to Engel, diversity was a driving force behind the planning of the event. Performances ranged from ‘Ekla Chalo Re,’ a Bengali song performed by Taraana, a South Asian music group, to a dance by the Crimson Dance Team to Janet Jackson songs...
...donned military garb and led troopers in advertisements to promote HIStory: Past Present & Future—Book 1, a two-CD set of his greatest hits and new material. The first single, “Scream”, marked the first-ever collaboration between Jackson and his younger sister Janet. The music video, still unsurpassed as the most expensive in history, featured the angry Jacksons venting their rage and expressing their unity on a monochrome spaceship. The lyrics were unusually open and angry for the pop king, a tone that characterized most of the new material on HIStory. Controversy erupted...
...43rd birthday, Jackson was on hand to open NASDAQ trading. Jackson’s surprise appearance at the 2001 VMAs drew wild applause, and his recent tribute concerts in Madison Square Garden featured an array of celebrities and the much-hyped reunion of the Jackson Five (although his sister Janet, currently on tour, was notably absent). MTV has been airing Jackson’s past hits, while VH1 has shown special after special about the King of Pop. Invincible will be released domestically on October 30. His previous recordings are being remastered and readied for re-release; Jackson?...
...many ways, it’s hard to characterize the Rally any differently than Janet Lapey, executive director of Concerned Citizens for Drug Prevention, did before the House Judiciary Committee in 1997: “Forty thousand young people were lured to Boston Common to hear rock music glorifying drug use and to smoke marijuana openly. There was a thick cloud of marijuana smoke over the Common, and children as young as 12 explained to reporters they were smoking marijuana because it is “a healthy medicine.” This year, it appeared that the latter...