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...beginning of the last decade, the world had a chance to halt the spread of AIDS in Africa. At the time, 4 million Africans were HIV-positive. The World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, headed by the visionary Jonathan Mann, worked with governments across Africa to plan national prevention programs. The pilot program was launched in Uganda, the epicenter of the crisis. Health workers entered training for a continent-wide mobilization to stop the epidemic...
...actually done in the state; and more from such European exiles as the two Viennese Modernist architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler, who took refuge on the Pacific shore and found themselves in the company of assorted shrinks, religious prophets, musicians and writers, from Aldous Huxley and Thomas Mann to Henry Miller and Nathanael West. A lot of photography, of course, especially ultrasharp f/64 pix of very grand mountains by Ansel Adams and fuzzy Pictorialist ones of American nudes capering among the redwoods in homage to Isadora Duncan. In sculpture, not a hell of a lot. In painting...
...Aimee Mann...
Save Me (Aimee Mann...
...about MacColl, if only to point out someone with great pop chops (Janet Jackson will do fine without me giving her any publicity, presumably. Sorry Miss Jackson). MacColl’s songs are catchy without being stupid—I would call them intelligent pop in the Sam Phillips/Aimee Mann mold, except she was a musician way before either of those artists (“They Don’t Know,” Tracey Ullman’s musical hit of the 80s, is a cover of a MacColl song, as is the Lemonheads’ B-side...