Word: ross
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This brag may need hedging because, over the long haul, other singers - Barbra Streisand, to name one, and perhaps Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross - may have sold more records than Linda. (Carole King sold 13 million of a single LP, Tapestry.) Nevertheless, Ronstadt is the only female performer to have four consecutive albums go platinum (she made over $3 million from record sales alone last year). "Female" is the important qualifier. Rock is the thumping heart of Linda's music, and the rock world is dominated by males. The biggest stars are male, and so are the back...
...hand, you recognize the fact that a solid athletics program is the principal coalescing force among alumni," says Ross Pritchard, president of 8,000-student Arkansas State. "Yet you are forced to recognize that the program operates at a loss and that you've got to pick up that loss from auxiliary moneys. That really puts the pressure on you." Echoes Stanford President Richard Lyman: "Those pressures are not going to diminish. Athletics costs are mounting faster than the cost of living, and most universities feel that they've exhausted such remedies as raising ticket prices dramatically...
...love being rich. I love playing tennis and not being cold in the winter. I am the original Horatio Alger story." The "I" is Diana Ross, who will tell some of that story in a March 6 NBC special featuring songs, dances and other acts. Paying tribute to black entertainers who paved the way for her, she dresses up as Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith. Ross, 32, identifies especially with Holiday, whose life she portrayed in her first movie, Lady Sings the Blues. Says Diana: "Billie needed a lot of love. She had so much luxury...
Martin H. Ross said at the meeting the failure of death penalty opponents to inform the public of their views during the last decade harmed the cause of abolition...
...have sweet little ladies who won't let their dogs out at night, yet they say 'My God, you're against the death penalty?' Ross said...