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...price of admission to the Beatrice Street Y is equivalent to one New York subway ride. The profound emotions shaping South Africa come with no extra charge. The performance is in Zulu, but spectators with no understanding of the language can grasp the feeling. Evocative words such as "AIDS," "lover boy," "our parliament" and "Mandela" are at the foreground. Hope and gloom duel in the background. Isicathamiya is South Africa's blues...
...elsewhere. Here all the music and shadows of the country flow together. Here thrives the figure of the adorable con artist, like Harlem's Mr. Rinehart in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, whose "world was possibility." He was "Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the lover and Rine the Reverend." His multiple identities occupied "a world without borders...where Rine the rascal was at home...
...nature--that captured American city experience as it had never been caught on film before, from the steaming draft horses in The Terminal, 1893, to the exquisitely etched, near Japanese view of the Flatiron Building in snow, 1902. The hundreds of photos he made of Georgia O'Keeffe, his lover and (after 1924) his wife, are an intense and extended erotic essay. Never before had a camera scrutinized a woman so closely or praised a fine-boned body with such rapturous aesthetic effect...
...when you see the magnificent range of some 20 Hartleys in this show, you realize that the essence of the man is there: not only the profoundly felt abstractions of military uniforms and insignia like Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, done in mourning for his young German lover killed in the trenches, but also the New Mexico paintings, the Maine seascapes and the plangent, unnerving grief of Eight Bells Folly: Memorial for Hart Crane...
...bringing them a couple of hits, not somebody building a career." It wasn't that he was slacking; his 1995 album, Boombastic--filled with thudding hip-hop style grooves--sold well and won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album. But when his follow-up, the saccharine Midnite Lover, flopped, Shaggy went label-less for nearly three years until MCA signed him after he scored with the hit single Luv Me Luv Me for the How Stella Got Her Groove Back sound track...