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Chapman quickly became a cultural icon. Her short, spiky dreadlocks signaled a move away from pop glitter. Her music, pared down, almost willfully naive, was an antidote to the synthesized sound of the 1980s. In an age when pop singers seemed more like musical M.B.A.s than recording artists, she seemed...
Even the casual listener who knows Jones mostly from her 1979 hit single, Chuck E.'s in Love, will recognize the smoky snap of her voice in the opening moments of the fine first track, The Horses. But just as quickly, the changes will be obvious. The jazz inflections and...
In large works like the Nine Clearings for a Standing Man, 1973, Wilmarth achieved the kind of grandeur of light and pared-down form that one associates with Rothko at his best, and something more: the sense of a figure, not described but evoked by a flat vertical plane, behind...
At the heart of the scandal is Samuel Pierce, Reagan's HUD Secretary. Though Pierce was the only black to serve in Reagan's Cabinet -- and its only member to remain in office throughout both Reagan terms -- the former President once greeted him as "Mr. Mayor" at a conference of...
The school's $150 million fundraising goal was pared down from an original "wish list" of $300 million, according to Dean for Development Scott G. Nichols.