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...been elected to two music Halls of Fame and provided the voice of Chef on South Park, which gave him a memorable if premature send-off in 2006. But the biggest triumph for this self-described Black Moses had to be on April 10, 1972, when his Theme from Shaft won the Academy Award for Best Original Song...
Frail and weary she may be, but Lessing still writes with the deftness and nuance that characterized her 1962 novel The Golden Notebook, one of the past century's most influential feminist works. In the memoir, she describes her father being lowered into a mine shaft, "his wooden leg sticking out and banging against its rocky sides," and reminisces about him hobbling over tree stumps and up hills to keep watch as she explored the veldt. In Alfred's imagined life, she makes him the successful farmer he wanted to be, and rids him of the diabetes that rendered...
...Mount Luo. For thousands of years people have searched for the sun god's lair, and they're still at it today. At the Dayingezhuang mine 19 miles (30 km) south of Mount Luo, workers take an open elevator car for a 21/2-minute plunge down a dark, icy shaft. At the bottom, amid swirling condensation and suffocating dankness, they enter a large hall labeled as face number 5,206. The night before, an engineer used 2-meter lengths of dynamite to blast 150 tons of rock from the roof. Now two men use an earthmover to load the rock...
...wasn't the best song - indeed, none of the five finalists deserved to be nominated in a category that has honored "Lullaby of Broadway," "The Way You Look Tonight," "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," "Over the Rainbow," "Under the Sea," "Streets of Philadelphia" and "Theme from Shaft" - but the gesture was cool...
...curve; it manages instead to be quietly beautiful. An exquisitely crafted foyer of cedar, textured granite and brushed bronze is lined on one side with floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the brick rear of the original museum. Galleries start underground and work their way up around the broad shaft of natural light that streams through Moneo's glass lantern. At the top comes the delicious surprise: a gorgeously restored Baroque cloister - dismantled from the neighboring San Jerónimo church and carefully reassembled in the new wing - that functions as a sculpture gallery. "The Prado has never been known...