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...Shawn Carter) seemed to know he had cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the Ur-rap narrative--make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers diamond mine--and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mike, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra--another vocalist who made...
...Shawn Carter) seemed to know he had cheated the odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the ur-rap narrative-make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers mine-and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mic, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra-another vocalist who made callousness...
...DIED. Ruth Brown, 78, swaggering, seductive big-band singer turned R&B diva who recorded a string of hits in the 1950s for Atlantic Records, including Teardrops From My Eyes and (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean, leading the fledgling label to be dubbed "the house that Ruth built"; in Las Vegas...
...Foucault argues, governments initially began the practice of managing “lunacy” toward the end of the Middle Ages, creating asylums for those whose behavior was deemed abnormal. With little scientific understanding of mental illness, “lunatic” was a broadly defined label that too frequently included the deaf, the mute, and the intellectually slow. “Treatment” meant squalid living conditions and physical abuse. Beginning in the 18th century, some steps were taken to make treatment of the mentally ill more “humane,” but well...
...past and present abuses of the term “mental illness” to live down. Here, the label has been applied to a wide range of behaviors that deviate from accepted social norms. Homosexuality, for example, was defined as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) until 1987. Transgendered persons are still labeled mentally ill, although it’s hard to see what danger they pose to themselves or others. While New Mexico human rights laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity, transgendered behavior remains in the latest...