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...longer. Hill, D'Angelo and Maxwell are distinct performers, but they share a willingness to challenge musical orthodoxy. For too long, critics, taking the public with them, have looked to rock and gangsta rap to fill the pantheon of pop heroes. But there was a time when auteurs had soul, when Marvin was asking what's going on, when Stevie was singing songs in the key of life, when Aretha was demanding respect. This season, with the ascension of a new generation of neo-soul stars, the past may be present again, and, to paraphrase Fanon, the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Neo-Soul On A Roll | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...program is co-chaired by Lukas' widow, Linda Healey, a vice president and senior editor at Pantheon Books, and Arthur Gelb, the president of The New York Times Foundation...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Journalism Awards to Honor Lukas | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...face of it Dorje Shugden is not an appealing prisoner of conscience. He is depicted--by friends--as a lightning-breathing terror with three bloodshot eyes, wreathed in the smoke of burning human flesh. In fact, however, as one of a pantheon of "protector deities," he exercises his wrath only in defense of a 350-year-old purist interpretation of the Dalai Lama's own Gelugpa branch of Tibetan Buddhism. For decades the High Lama himself included Shugden in his daily prayers. But in 1976 he began preaching against the god; in 1996 he discouraged Shugdenites' participation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monks vs. Monks | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...sexual encounter a day--40 different women in five months, competing for the touch of what Hugo called his "lyre." Larger than life, he was almost larger than death: half a million people, the biggest funeral attendance since the death of Napoleon, followed his cortege to the freshly deconsecrated Pantheon, a building he detested and compared to a sponge cake. There he still lies. "Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo," bitched Jean Cocteau some decades later. So might a chihuahua fix its tiny fangs in the ankle of a bull elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sublime Windbag | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...really worthy of Harvard, you're already jockeying for your place in the pantheon. You know where you're going and you're taking the shortest route to get there. FM fully supports such sociopathic tendencies, if only for prurient reasons. Just to give you a leg up on the rest of your peers (they're thinking just like you are, so you don't have a moment to spare) we're giving you this advice: it all comes down to what you're doing during the last few weeks before your first year at Harvard. What's it going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

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