Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...device to give some shape to the anecdotes and insights. In an ordinary fiction film, neither the story nor the audience would sit still while the characters took side trips to, say, a gypsy shrine in Quebec, or into a country-western nightclub where Angelo flirts with a young singer. It is precisely in these back alleys of narrative that the film almost romantically luxuriates, watching a gang of natural exhibitionists reveal themselves and their exotic world...
...well and good for the Foundation to honor the singer. Even though neither her actions nor her music has had any real effect on race relations, the visit was not the "proverbial straw that broke the Camel's back "nor" an insult to the intelligence of all the students who wish to improve race relations at Harvard University and the community at large," as a number of students have claimed. But the last that the Foundation features celebrities like Sugar Ray Leonard and Diana Ross in order to bring itself to the attention of students not only indicates the University...
DIED. Muddy Waters, 68, the Grammy award-winning blues singer and guitarist whose vibrant Delta sound influenced a generation of rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, who took their name from one of his songs; of cardiac arrest; in the Chicago suburb of Westmont. Born McKinley Morganfield, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, Waters had a guttural baritone that soared in songs such as Hoochie Coochie Man and Got My Mojo Working...
...Willie Mae Ford Smith is a round, sweet-faced woman with a shrewd yet sentimental eye, a determined spirit and a powerfully moving voice, now somewhat cracked by long, if lively service to the Lord. She is a beloved gospel singer, much looked to for moral and artistic guidance by people in her profession. Say Amen, Somebody is a documentary that follows her on her exhausting rounds, from bustling home to jumping church services to emotionally galvanic singing conventions. Following in her wake, the audience meets her mentor (Thomas A. Dorsey, a onetime blues singer and composer...
...combines a holy man's zeal, a performer's ego and a revered older man's self-contentment, and the film's portrait of him becomes a little essay on the patriarch as enigma. Or consider Delois Barrett Campbell. Onstage she is a shatteringly forceful singer. Off stage she is married to the minister of a humble church who has trouble understanding the ambition that must lie behind a talent as large as hers. Like any wife whose career has outstripped her husband's, she would rather divert him with a home-cooked breakfast than...