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Calling former presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40 defenders of the arts, Clinton said the President's Millennium Council is doing important work to continue this tradition...
...Semitic twin, the view that culminated in Hitler's speeches about "the rapacity of a Rothschild." The family became an all-purpose and surreal villain. Karl Marx vilified the Rothschilds as a quintessence of capitalist evil. One contemporary conspiracy theorist argued that the Rothschilds "arranged the murder of President Lincoln" and, later on, financed the rise of Hitler as a bulwark against the Soviet Union...
...social moderation and outreach to minorities, if only embraced by a stunned G.O.P. now wedded to the religious right, could lead to the big prize in Y2K. His election would then establish Clinton's place in history: a tainted twig between two Bushes. FRANCIS S. ANDREWS Lincoln, Mass...
...addition to the usual Burger King tie-in, Lincoln Mercury is running commercials that promote both the film and a new minivan. The movie's sound track includes a spectrum of old and new hipsters: Busta Rhymes and Iggy Pop, Lisa Loeb and Lou Rawls, Beck and DEVO (whose co-begetter, Mark Mothersbaugh, wrote the film's score). There is also The Rugrats Movie itself, a knowing festival of pop-cultural citations, evocations and plain old rip-offs. Says Albie Hecht of Nickelodeon, which conducted "parent-focused research" to broaden the project's salability: "We worked hard to make sure...
Women jazz singers are popping up like new sitcoms these days, but Kendra Shank's delectable voice--warm-toned, fine-grained, quietly sexy--sets her well apart from the crowd, as does her knack for picking unhackneyed, slightly off-center material (Abbey Lincoln's Angel Face, Jule Styne's You Say You Care). Add in the crystalline piano playing of Frank Kimbrough, and you get an album that clings to the memory. The up-tempo tunes swing hard; the ballads shimmer and shine. Get in on the ground floor: this lady is going...