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...Sitting on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding 3. Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin 4. Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 5. Under the Boardwalk 6. To Love Somebody - Janis Joplin 7. You've Lost that Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers 8. Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & Miracles 9. River Deep, Mountain High - Animals 10. House of the Rising Sun - Animals...
...Strange Fruit," popularized by Billie Holiday, weigh in at number 3 and 7, respectively. Like most of the songs on the list, these are cultural phenomena as much as songs, and this applies as well to Motown and Bob Dylan, represented on the list by Smokey Robinson's "The Tracks of My Tears' (5) and Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changing...
...Leaders in the nation's largest black organization repeatedly urged the 3,000 attendees - successfully - to give Bush a respectful reception. They got a respectful speech in return. Bush quoted Jackie Robinson and W.E.B. DuBois, played up his religion and apologized for his party's bad behavior during the 1960s-era civil-rights drive. "There's no escaping the reality that the party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln," he said in a brief 15-minute address. "That's my job, to say here's where we have fallen short and here's where we will...
...star 27. Pimlico shape 29. Sierra __, hardly a holiday spot for the British 30. It approved AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne 33. Foy patriarch 35. Cancel, in Hollywood-speak 36. "__'s Law" (governs computer power and cost) 38. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll author Bogosian 40. Richard ___ (Edwin Arlington Robinson poem) 41. Desert Storm cuisine 42. Gag response, informally 46. Humped bovine 48. Procter & Gamble chairman Durk, who is stepping down unexpectedly 49. 45-Down's org. 51. Double-Tony-winning director Michael 54. Ron's second chief of staff 55. The Army says it shot down a rocket with...
...Robinson's specialty is the arts--she is the head of several nationwide arts groups including the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. She also led the opposition to the drive by Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts...