Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course of Chicago, McDonnel deserves credit for keeping the on-stage mayhem to a minimum. She shouldn't have to work this hard, but Heller insists on the hackneyed technique of inserting the chorus into virtually every song and ending most numbers with the entire company surrounding the lead singer. These techniques should have been used more sparingly...
...quickly becoming outdated. As we begin the '90s, the zeitgeist has changed again. Now the sensitive male is a wimp and an object of derision to boot. In her song Sensitive New Age Guys, singer Christine Lavin lampoons, "Who carries the baby on his back? Who thinks Shirley MacLaine is on the inside track?" Now it's goodbye, Alan Alda; hello, Mel Gibson, with your sensitive eyes and your lethal weapon. Hi there, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the devoted family man with terrific triceps. The new surge of tempered macho is everywhere. Even the male dummies in store windows are getting tougher...
...ever growing numbers of women have been caught in the dragnet. About 60% of all women in federal prisons have been convicted of drug-related offenses, but that tells only part of the story. Many other crimes -- theft, prostitution, armed robbery -- are also drug related. At the Rose M. Singer jail for women on New York City's Rikers Island, warden Robert Brennan estimates that drugs underlie the incarceration of 95% of his inmates...
...music hasn't exactly been kind to women, portraying them mostly as malleable sex objects or manipulative money grubbers. But that hasn't stopped Queen Latifah, 20, from finding her voice amid a crowded field of sexist, street-smart men. The Newark-born singer-songwriter has been called the Aretha Franklin of rap for her creative fusing of reggae, soul and jazz. A professional rapper for five years, she sees herself as a role model for young people, and she's as committed to raising consciousness as she is to having fun. "I try to slip in a few lines...
...Drowned and wasted" is the way the singer and writer Marianne Faithfull thought about the death of Brian Jones. He was the seminal Rolling Stone, the guiding spirit of the band as well as its original unifying force, but he was done in: by drugs; by intramural rivalry; by his own musical eccentricity, a sense of rhythm-and-blues purity that kept him from going easily along with the kind of flat-out, bleacher-battering rock that bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were starting to write...