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Talking to Blige, one gets the sense, to paraphrase Langston Hughes, that she's "known rivers"; there are some deep currents of pain running through her, but where they're flowing from is hard to say. Her older sister LaTonya, Mary's backup singer and closest confidante, says that in private the singer "laughs all the time" and spends her nights watching Bette Davis videos. But riding in her limo recently, Blige is, at first, a little wary of questioning. She comes alive, though, when we make a stop at the showroom of French designer Thierry Mugler. She loves shopping...
Harper Hines said she became acquainted, often intimately, with well-known civil-rights advocates such as Marshall, Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois, class of 1890, through her involvement with the NAACP, the Red Cross, the Works Progress Administration, the YWCA and other organizations...
Schwarzenegger's Howard Langston is, in contrast, based more or less on life models. We've all been where he's going--on a desperate last-minute search for the overhyped toy without which a kid's Christmas morning will be miserable. In this case the problem is exacerbated by the absence of Turbo Man, a perfectly awful action figure, from available shelves and by Langston's rivalry for the elusive doll with one Myron Larabee (the comedian Sinbad), a bomb-toting mailman who has gone permanently postal. Director Brian Levant envisions their holiday world in cheerily surreal terms...
...Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in New York City, which featured a symposium focusing on the ancient winged creatures known collectively as pterosaurs. Were flying giants such as Quetzalcoatlus carrion eaters, like outsize vultures, as researchers once proposed? Or were they--as Thomas Lehman, of Texas Tech University, and Wann Langston Jr., of the Texas Memorial Museum, convincingly argued last week--more like humongous storks, probing the lake bottoms for tasty tidbits and snaring them with their lancelike beak...