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...home. You must have certain values respected. The schools can only supplement what the home does. We are worried about it ourselves. I don't know what is going to happen in 15 or 20 years. My grandchildren are different from my children, because they visit me and sing television ditties. They have been watching it. And no one is at home except the maid. I don't think we should continue that. The government can set the parameters, but the thrust must come from the family...
Barney won't sing I Love You while copyright suit goes to trial...
...Ellison, a sensible gent, declined this honor. He was not every black writer; he was a black writer -- or, as he might prefer, a writer. And, for some blacks, he was guilty of having allowed himself to be praised by white critics. In the '60s, when the civil rights sing-along gave way to Black Power shock therapy, Ellison found himself overshadowed by more urgent novelists, such as Richard Wright (Native Son), who played Malcolm X to Ellison's Martin Luther King Jr. Ellison compiled two volumes of trenchant essays but never finished his second novel, on which he worked...
...TRUE THAT SINGERS SING NOTES, but the word evokes bland images of Post- its on refrigerator doors, "call me" messages scrawled on a pad near the telephone, disposable e-mail hurriedly read and quickly spiked. There has to be a classier term for what Cassandra Wilson sings. Notes just doesn't cover it. You'd have to say that she sings entire epistles, love letters to the soul; every sound that leaves her lips is filled with paragraphs of emotion, written lovingly in longhand with...
...advances of Apollo, God of Music, and was thus given the curse that her prophecies would never be believed. The Gods of Pop Music would love to see Cassandra Wilson $ submit, and she sometimes responds to the pressure to seek a larger audience. This summer, for instance, she will sing the title track on When Doves Cry, an album of Prince songs performed by jazz musicians and vocalists. But even when covering pop songs, she gives them jazz depth. "I've gone too far into jazz to ever abandon it," she says. That's one prophesy that no one should...