Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Director of Community Relations Marilyn Lyng O'Connell, Harvard's legal team finished going over the agreement this summer...
Columbia made sure that its star stayed visible. The company assigned him to high-powered publicist Marilyn Laverty, who represented rock star Bruce Springsteen, and she soon generated reams of press clips. Wynton is the first to admit that Columbia's salesmanship had a lot to do with his popular success, but claims not to take it seriously. "It has nothing to do with artistic merit or substance," he says. Adds brother Delfeayo, who has produced more than a dozen albums for Columbia and other labels: "Sure, Wynton has the hype. He created the hype: he was cute and articulate...
Before learning to live with AIDS, White had to learn to live with his homosexuality. "I didn't want to be gay," he says. "I wanted to be normal, to have a wife and kids, not have a lonely old age." So why gay? "He has always said," says Marilyn Schaefer, a lifelong friend, "that it happened because of the divorce. That he absorbed too deeply his mother's longing...
Commercial calculation is crucial for pop survival and establishing a persona. Madonna sheds images like snakeskins: the bad-girl boytoy; the sassy feminist; the confused pseudo penitent; the ambisexual flirt; the wistful sex bomb, Marilyn Monroe reborn from a peroxide bottle with a genie inside, snuggling up to Dick Tracy. She is craftier and more gifted than anyone else playing the game right now, but all her identities have one quality in common. They are teasingly, patently artificial. They insist on their own calculation. They revel in it and induce the audience to do the same...
Behind the striking change is principal Marilyn Hohmann and a committee of elected teachers. They have worked together to change the school's 1,200 students, 30% of whom live in public housing projects, from passive recipients of knowledge into active problem solvers. "Covering the material is not the goal," says Hohmann. "Learning how to learn is the point...