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This oddball tonality is made even odder by the instrumentation, contrasting Wendy Sutter’s cello with Mark Stewart’s undulating electric guitar. The result is intriguing, not alienating...
...just a few months, and before he was 20, he had scored his first professional gig in the Village (a supporting act to blues singer John Lee Hooker). Rejected by the traditional labels, Folkways and Vanguard (whose A&R man said, "We don't record freaks"), he made an odder move: being signed by legendary producer John Hammond for Mitch Miller's Columbia Records. Miller called Dylan "Hammond's folly...
Shakespeare's Staying Power Your story on the booming business in all things Shakespearean made me laugh [March 27]. Two weeks ago, I saw a performance of Macbeth in which all of the roles were played by men. What made it even odder was that they were all totally nude from the first to the last second of the play. Well, sometimes Macbeth had a cardboard crown on his head, and occasionally Lady Macbeth wore a very long wig, but that was all. When "she" took it off, there was Lady Macbeth with short blond hair and a penis...
While White is mellow, Teter, who followed his golden performance the next day, is more bubbly than New Year's champagne. And odder than a Brazilian bobsledder. Asked what she would do with her medal: "I'll staple it on a wall, with a real staple gun." Huh? To deprogram, Teter heads to a Benedictine monastery near her childhood home in tiny Belmont, Vt., to meditate and just hang with the rest of the robes. "I go there and kind of just forget about everything," Teter told TIME before the Games. "My life, my stresses, my world. They are sooooo...
...student with an overbite, wearing a paper bib around my neck and lying back in a large chair. After gargling with minty liquid, I opened my mouth wide and looked up, and looming above me, holding a gleaming metallic instrument, was Keanu Reeves. That was disconcerting enough, but even odder was the realization that we were not alone but were being watched by hundreds of moviegoers at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah...