Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BORN. To Jerry Hall, 29, Texas-tall (5 ft. 10 1/2 in.) supermodel; and Mick Jagger, 42, durable lead singer of the Rolling Stones; their second child, a son; in New York City. Weight: 7 lbs. Jagger already has three daughters --Elizabeth Scarlett, 18 months, by Hall; Karis, 14, by American Singer Marsha Hunt; and Jade, 13, by ex-Wife Bianca Jagger...
...occasional student and otherworldly wit. Moving a couple of hundred miles south, and joining up with Keyboard Player Jerry Harrison, they became the premier house band for New York City's young artistic community. Artist Robert Longo even inserted a life-size cutout of Byrne, the group's lead singer and driving force, into a construction called Heads Will Roll. "Neo-expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind of art, and, for a while, it might have been carpentered onto the Heads' music as well. African rhythm stacked up against Motown, and 42nd Street funk against the ozone background...
...best-known tunes. Byrne may have looked, at first, like Anthony Perkins getting ready to swab the bathroom floor at the Bates Motel, but his brilliant performance made manifest all the deadpan comedy and everyday eeriness of the music. At last, everything was clear. Besides, the lead singer ended up being as endearing as the Qantas koala...
...laureate's continuing vitality. "The instinct to create remains as long as one breathes," says an obscure Yiddish poet in one of these tales, and he obviously speaks for his author as well as for all the compulsive monologists who continue to pop up in and then dominate Singer's short stories. "Now listen," commands Aunt Yentl, who is overheard telling three different anecdotes, and only the dull or the terminally uninterested could possibly disobey...
...Singer's fictional world has long consisted of three main realms, and this volume is divided pretty much equally among them. Eight stories are set in Polish villages or provincial small towns, where everyone knows everyone else's business and gossip is the preferred mode of entertainment. "There were no secrets in Krashnik," says the narrator of The Image. "People peered into keyholes and listened behind doors." Thus when the marriage between a village beauty and a bright yeshiva boy remains stubbornly unconsummated, the odd reason why cannot long escape becoming common knowledge. As before, Singer's tales of rural...