Word: lennox
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...hear Franklin's voice is to hear many voices: she sings not just for black women but for all women. Her pop hit Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves (1985) was a duet, notably, with a white singer, Annie Lennox. Franklin sings not just about the female condition but about the human one. I Say a Little Prayer (1968) and Love Pang (1998) are existential soul, capturing heartache juxtaposed with workaday life--brushing your teeth, drinking morning coffee. By singing of such things, she exalted the mundane, giving a voice, a powerful one, to everyday folks and events...
...heavy cross-casting, which may initially provoke skepticism, turns out to be a fine idea; the women who play the Thanes of Ross and Lennox--Erin Billings '00, in a strong supporting turn, and Mary Pagones, respectively--are, like Voros's Banquo, stolid, sober figures who maintain the dignity and slight aloofness which characterize the statesmen. Dressed in identical black man-tailored suits, the thanes move through the play like almost interchangeable cogs in a state machine; Voros's more personal characterization of Banquo is what makes the character so much missed. Andres Ramos-Nolasco '99 plays a rather flat...
...dancers to form a new pop group. They soon fell out with their manager, set off on their own and recruited Emma (Bunton). The five started singing (often uninvited) at parties, record-company offices, anywhere they could get noticed. They eventually hired manager Simon Fuller--the man behind Annie Lennox--who signed them with Virgin Records...
...passion for the appurtenances of celebrity. Says Hood: "He was not into being in the spotlight." Julia Bond recalls that as a freshman at Morehouse, Ennis "had a car, but his parents wouldn't let him bring it to the campus, so I ended up driving him up to Lennox [a popular shopping mall in Atlanta] all the time. His parents didn't want him to have it because they didn't want him to be flashy. It was real funny, you know, because people were, like, if you're Bill Cosby's son, how come you don't have...
...enthusiastic advocate of the idea that the album should feature only women--a popular concept these days, with such recent all-female CDs as the pro-choice compilation Spirit of '73 (with Rosanne Cash and others), the MTV-sponsored Ain't Nothin' but a She Thing (with Annie Lennox and Melissa Etheridge) and the Christmas album Mother and Child (with Amy Grant and Martina McBride). "I wanted this to be an album of women with vocal distinction," says Houston, "that you could say their first name but you don't have to say their last." For Babyface, the key first...