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DIED. CURTIS MAYFIELD, 57, Superfly singer-songwriter who urged listeners to Keep On Pushing during the civil rights movement; from the effects of a 1990 accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down; in Roswell, Ga. (see Eulogy...
...status in the fields of gospel, blues, rock and pop as well. She is a sharp, rhythmically fierce pianist. And though she wrote a number of her hits, including the sexually brazen Dr. Feelgood, she also displayed brilliance in making other people's compositions her own, such as Curtis Mayfield's pop gem Something He Can Feel. Or listen to her 1971 gospel-charged take on the Simon and Garfunkel classic Bridge over Troubled Water. That water's a good deal more troubled when Franklin sings the song; even the bridge seems sturdier. She was the first female inductee into...
...course, some of the same people who made that great music in the past are still working hard today. Curtis Mayfield, who was paralyzed in a tragic stage accident in Brooklyn in 1990, is certainly the most inspiring example. His album New World Order, released in 1996, showed everyone that it was the younger generation that was truly handicapped...
...soaked November afternoon in Las Cruces, N.M., Aaron Soto, 13, traded places with his former East Picacho Elementary School teachers and for two hours conducted an in-service technology-training conference for a dozen of them, arrayed before him around a horseshoe of computer terminals. Aaron, a freshman at Mayfield High School, ran through a series of sophisticated videoconferencing demonstrations. Later he provided individual assistance to his adult "students," pacing behind them, peering over the top of his gold-rimmed glasses to look at a screen or click a mouse...
...make up for the thinly drawn characters and lagging plot, director Les Mayfield keeps the flubber and the film moving at a thunderous pace. It almost seems like a filmed amusement park ride at times, a roller coaster of frenetic special effects that must hurdle the obstacles of a lifeless plot. Yet the pace is brisk enough to make up for any of the slow stretches--there's always the glimpse of another gooey dance scene in the near future...