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Rhythm and blues, like rock 'n' roll, was born and raised in America, with such influential exponents as Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Prince. Now Britain is giving rise to what might be called alternative R. and B. Performers such as Tricky, Portishead, singer Carleen Anderson, Seal and others have enlivened the accepted, sometimes constraining formats of R.-and-B. songs with offbeat rhythms and the kind of enigmatic lyrics one would usually expect from alternative rock. Says Des'ree: "I think British soul tends to be less conventional. American soul music seems to be going through a phase...
...assets in Moscow. A defense researcher who was a leading expert on stealth aircraft technology, Tolkachev was identified in the documents Ames turned over. The CIA later concluded that Tolkachev had first been betrayed by renegade CIA officer Edward Lee Howard, but that Ames' identification helped to seal his fate. Tolkachev was executed on Sept...
...travelled to Zaire's capital from Kikwit. The captain was found not to be infected and released. When foreign journalists who had visited Kikwit learned that they were to be quarantined as well, several fled to the Congo. Angola, seeking to prevent an outbreak, sent more troops to seal its border with Zaire...
...form held together by a gestural calligraphy, sometimes wobbly but often very precise. The colors are muted: grays, sandy browns, black, occasionally lit by a flash of red, as in Glasshouse Mountains, 1958; forms are pressed into a flat dense surface (stamped there, you feel, as by a Chinese seal), but the space also folds in and out, shallow and buckling, like a screen. Sometimes the brushstrokes are languid and creamy, but they are interspersed with a stuttering, rough calligraphy that might have been drawn with a twig. The broken grid half-conceals figures and friezes remembered from China, India...
Grant's supporters, however, have contendedthat the intent of the juvenile justice system isto seal the cases of young offenders so that theycan get on with their lives...