Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COLLECTED STORIES by Isaac Bashevis Singer Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 610 pages...
...hallmark of literary modernism is the notion that readers must earn their places at the feet of the masters. Serious art requires extended initiations; Finnegans Wake is not for the fainthearted, nor will Proust reward the impatient. Isaac Bashevis Singer, 77, began writing at about the time that this avant-garde assumption was hardening into orthodoxy, and somehow he never got the message. He went on with his work under the illusion that authors were still required to prove themselves to their audiences, and not the reverse. He told stories as if daring any of his listeners...
...from Valsjöbyn (pop. 150), Sweden, dispelled it last week when she returned to her homeland for her Swedish debut. Ann-Margret relied on a hip-grinding medley of contemporary rock favorites and old-fashioned Las Vegas showmanship, unpackaging an act containing seven male dancers, three back-up singers, a 26-piece orchestra and six costume changes. The singer also threw in some vintage hokum when she joked with the audience in a Swedish dialect. "It makes this girl a little nervous to come to the big city," said Ann-Margret, who left for the U.S. when...
HOSPITALIZED. Teddy Pendergrass, 31, rhythm-and-blues singer whose gospel-flavored ballads and sexy disco records have sold in the millions (Life Is a Song Worth Singing, The More I Get the More I Want): with severe neck injuries; in Philadelphia. Pendergrass, injured when he lost control of his Rolls-Royce and smashed into two trees, suffered partial paralysis...
Maureen McGovern, 32, pop singer who switched to Broadway to perform in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, on the career of a recording star: "You're only as good as your last two minutes and 47 seconds...