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...covered in the past. The second encore was the high-light of the evening. Siouxsie at her best sang as Cale strummed an electric viola for a stunning performance of "Venus in Furs," a song from the legendary 1967 album The Velvet Underground and Nico. Though originally Lou Reed had sung the lyrics, Sioux's appropriation of the words, "shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather," lent the song a sexy feminine air, which perfectly complemented Cale's viola and the band's performance as the spotlights bounced their golden drops from Siouxsie's vinyl pants...
DISAPPOINTING RUSSIA In Reds (1981), socialist John Reed dies in sorrow when he sees the Russian Revolution go awry--much like liberals did when the U.S.S.R. invaded Afghanistan...
Warhol was the neon sign of the times, flashing SEX, GOSSIP, DEATH. His hunger for the machinery and trappings of fame thrust him beyond painting into filmmaking, with titles like Flesh and Trash; into music, fronting Lou Reed's rock band, the Velvet Underground; into publishing the gushing society organ Interview; even into the odd cameo appearance on TV. All these activities orbited the low-gravity center of the artist, with his blank stare and his wan voice that uttered such sibylline aphorisms as "I want to be a machine" and, most quoted of all, "In the future everyone will...
...anybody was conservative, they were really embarrassed," says Louise Reed Ritchie '73. "They stood out as being really different than the average student...
This year, MacArthur grant winners includeauthor Ishmael Reed and cattle rancher WilliamMcDonald...