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...Brown?s importance went beyond movies, or even music. He was a prime pop showman, who brought the notions of melodrama and irony to his performances. You couldn?t help noticing this in the first years of rock ?n roll, the mid- to late 50s, when a singer?s physical exuberance was as radical as the raucous sound he was selling. The revolution was televised, so it had to be musical and visual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: James Brown | 12/26/2006 | See Source »

...Elvis shimmied, Little Richard wailed, Jerry Lee Lewis smashed the piano stool and played the keys with his feet, and all helped liberate pop culture from the straitjacket of propriety. Rock ?n roll made them move like that. But those three had a guitar or piano to play or play with or hide behind. Brown had played the piano and other instruments, but onstage they?d just slow him down. He needed his hands and legs free to prowl, keep the band pumped up, work the crowd into a practiced frenzy. For 50 years, he was a full-service entertainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: James Brown | 12/26/2006 | See Source »

...Awami League also accuses the BNP of altering the voter roll before leaving office, removing the names of its supporters while entering the names of BNP voters multiple times. The BNP concedes there are problems with the roll but denies manipulating it. "They cannot really establish it, number one," says BNP joint secretary general Nazrul Islam Khan of the Awami League's allegations. "Number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Web Poll Prevent a Rigged Election? | 12/26/2006 | See Source »

...Muzaffer Ahmad, head of Transparency International Bangladesh, is more suspicious. He wants to know why people who were on the list and voted in 2001 have had their names removed. He also wants the updated list to be made public as one roll so he and his colleagues can compare it against the old roll before polling day. And that's where technology comes in: With the electoral commission seemingly intent on posting the roll piece by piece in each polling center, Ahmad and a group of democracy campaigners are turning to the Internet for help. The group, which goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Web Poll Prevent a Rigged Election? | 12/26/2006 | See Source »

...What kind of Christmas album would rock 'n roll's first superstar make? Well, the opening track, a Leiber-Stoller R&B number called "Santa Claus Is Back in Town," sounded a declaration of war against the Christmas-music tradition. As Elvis growled and screamed it: "Hang up your pretty stockin's / Turn off de light / Santa Claus is comin' / Down the old chimney tonight." Sexually explicit enough for ya? The title track - which lyrically is just another song about being alone or lonely on a holiday that's meant to reunite loved ones - was sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 12 CDs of Christmas | 12/22/2006 | See Source »

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