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Cohen practically purrs here. He sings smoothly, if not prettily, and his writing has a measure of spareness that is new to it. The sound may be odd, as suprising as his outing with the amok Phil Spector on 1977's perplexing Death of a Ladies' Man. But it suits and insinuates. And the writing still has the same carbolic kick...
Inevitably, it finally overcame her. This set offers not only a living piece of her life in music but a kind of oral history of the last years as well. Producer Phil Schaap has included 1 1/2 hours of newly discovered material, rehearsals in 1955 where Lady Day runs through some tunes, runs over a little history ("Jesus Christ. Man broke my heart and I needed the loot"), runs down some collaborators ("The dirty bum," she says of her producer, Norman Granz. "I hate that son of a bitch") and in general gives a strong account of the spirit that...
This is the last issue of 15 Minutes that Phil Rubin and I will edit. Today, as we hand the mag over to the next generation of editors, my feelings are mixed. I'll finally have time to work on my thesis, and I won't have to spend the night at 14 Plympton St. every Tuesday. But I will miss the mag, the paper and the people. And the end of my Crimson tenure makes contemplation of the End--the end of college--a lot harder to avoid. We have only six months...
...true, in the kind of Phil Donahue sense, I "came out" with that essay, although not to the satisfaction of my critics. I was on a talk show yesterday in New York, talking about gays in the military. I said that this notion that Ross Perot has--this "I don't care what they do in the privacy of their own homes"--is not sufficient to me. Everything I write has been gay, it's a part of my life. I can't tell you this is something that I just do when I close the door. Days of Obligation...
Other All-Ivy Stuff: Four Harvard players were named to the All-Ivy Second Team as well: Giardi, junior offensive tackle Jason Slavik, senior defensive tackle Phil Furse and senior defensive back Chris Pillsbury...