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Like Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, Franklin helped bring spiritual passion into pop music. In 1961 she signed with Columbia, which tried to turn her into a singer of jazzy pop. In 1966 she switched to Atlantic, delved into soul, and began to flourish. Unlike many of her performing peers, Franklin took a strong hand in creating her own sound. Her guiding principle with producers, she says, is "if you're here to record me, then let's record...
Even severe critics see the remedy as editorial self-control. No one wants regulation. However, says Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press at Harvard, "what frightens me is the prospect that one day either Congress or a state legislature may feel the need to vote restrictions against the press as one way of containing the excesses of local news...
...pottery, weavings and watercolors. Overnight at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, there's a campus tour and ample opportunity to attend student and faculty performances. You may also get to hear one of the international artists who play at Interlochen each summer (past performers include Yo-Yo Ma, Marvin Hamlisch and Itzhak Perlman). The last night of the trip is spent at the Crystal Mountain Resort, a luxury property adjacent to Michigan Legacy Art Park, a 30-acre sculpture gallery actually built into the forest. Bike-tour rates are $809 a person for a double room. Discounts for children...
Horowitz's claim is that the co-chairs of Israel's 50th Anniversary Committee--Americans Merv Adelson, co-founder of Lorimar Telepictures, and Marvin Josephson, founder of International Creative Management--did not receive the promised monetary support from the Israeli government because their conception of an anniversary celebration differed sharply from Israelis.' That is, the planned events, including a celebrity-stocked show broadcast worldwide from the Ramat Gan stadium near Tel Aviv organized by the people who organized the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics opening ceremonies, were considered too flashy, shallow and expensive--in short, too American. Almost everything the Committee...
...There is not much dust that settles on the center," says Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center. His center not only welcomes six fellows every semester, "journalists as well as scholars," but reaches out by participating in current debate...