Word: lincolnisms
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...himself. America is "at risk," facing a "genuine crisis," beset by "moral decay"; our very civilization may not "survive." Fortunately, just in the nick of time, comes Gingrich, who by his own account is not just a "genuine revolutionary" but a "transformational figure." You know the type: F.D.R., Lincoln, Moses. Well, people who claim to have a plan for leading us out of the wilderness warrant unusual scrutiny, and so does their plan...
...that have enlivened New York City's traditionally slow summer season. James Lapine's Twelve Dreams is a straight play that feels like a musical; Graciela Daniele's Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a musical that often feels like a straight play. Both appear under the aegis of Lincoln Center (though the first is off-Broadway, the second on). And both are smart, surrealistic and visually entrancing...
Even so, the Southern Baptists can probably count on most blacks to take the apology in good faith. African Americans are by nature a forgiving people, says Lincoln. So much so that many of them, including several prominent Baptist ministers in Harlem, threw a lavish ceremony last week to welcome ex-heavyweight champion Mike Tyson home from prison, despite howls of outrage from black feminists who charged that the much hyped ceremony was tantamount to enshrining brutality toward women. If blacks harbor such forbearance for a convicted rapist who has yet to repent his crime, it stands to reason that...
...resemble their cars. Or do cars resemble their men? Either--or both--might hold true of rocker Neil Young as he folds his lanky, cranky frame into the driver's seat of his rust-pocked 1958 Lincoln Continental convertible. The car's been through a lot, and so has Young. The graying, semi-reclusive singer-songwriter was a member of the countrified '60s rock group Buffalo Springfield; one-fourth of the vocal quartet Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; an anti-Nixon protester in the '70s; a sometime Reagan sympathizer in the '80s. Now in the '90s Young is a father figure...
These days Young is running on a fresh, full tank of gas, and not just in his Lincoln. His new album, Mirror Ball (Reprise), is one of the most consistently rewarding works of his long, winding career. It features an extraordinary backup group, Pearl Jam, the youthful, populist, alternative-rock megaband. Even though Young is two decades older than any of the group's members, the pairing isn't some demographic gimmick--Sean Connery guest-starring on Friends. It is a natural coming together of rockers with a shared commitment and passion. "Actually, in many ways, I feel like Pearl...