Word: nats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have an editorial board to advise on important decisions. At TIME FOR KIDS, managing editor Claudia Wallis also has a private sounding board--her "own little focus group of one"--son Nathaniel, 9. The good word on TFK's prototypes: he liked them! And as would any informed adviser, Nat had a suggestion: Do more stuff on sports. Voila! A story on Cal Ripken...
...Nat's input and Wallis' credentials (a former TIME writer and senior editor, she was nominated this year for a National Magazine Award), TFK is no mom-and-son operation. Its staff of nine includes alumnae of Weekly Reader, Kid City Magazine, TIME and the TIME Education Program, as well as prodigies from Middlebury College and the Rhode Island School of Design. It will also tap TIME's network of writers and correspondents for stories of interest to the skateboard...
...thus handicapped by pop's 30-year tyranny of singer-songwriters. Since the Beatles and Bob Dylan, this is the rule: if you don't write, you're no artist. "Vocal interpreter" used to be an honorable job description--good enough for Crosby, Sinatra, Ella, Billie Holiday, Nat Cole, who wrote little of their own material. Now the epithet is often a slur. It suggests a lounge singer crooning Can You Feel the Love Tonight...
This rather macabre technique has become familiar to listeners ever since Natalie Cole's Grammy-winning album Unforgettable, in which she sang a duet with her dead father, Nat King Cole. The technology, a record company executive speculates, may one day allow individual notes sung by dead musicians to be reassembled into entirely new songs. Tasteful? True to the artist's vision? It is difficult...
...will deny that the vast majority of pro-lifers are deeply religious. After all, the activity we were engaged in outside the clinic was prayer. But the religious don't have a monopoly on opposition to abortion. Courageous individuals like Nat Hentoff, a Jewish atheist, oppose abortion on philosophical grounds alone. If people of vastly different moral and religious beliefs can join together to fight abortion, I fail to see how it can constitute the imposition of any elaborate moral code...