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Daniela Mercury, 35, is already a superstar in Brazil as a champion of axe music (pronounced ah-shay). Her CD Sol da Liberdade throbs like blood in the arteries with the rhythms of her native Bahia, a region of Brazil with a heavy African influence...
Does the ancient Puritan connection between virtue and boredom still run beneath the glitzy, pleasure-roiled surface of American culture? For the answer, go and visit the retrospective of Sol LeWitt's paintings, sculpture and prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. It will dispel your doubts, without necessarily offering you lots in the way of superior pleasure. The Puritans, as descendants of the men who tried to destroy the whole legacy of English medieval art, exalted the Word and the Idea and distrusted the visual icon. It was blasphemy to represent the face...
Which brings us to Sol LeWitt, there in the Whitney. There is no doubt of the probity and generosity of this artist, born in 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents and trained at Syracuse University and at New York's School of Visual Arts, with an additional background of architectural drafting in the offices of I.M. Pei. Every one of the seven essays in the show's thick catalog pays effusive tribute to the sum of LeWitt's virtues, his "openness" and his "honesty," his recoil from the cult of "heroic" personality and his generous encouragement of a score...
Margo, you're missing out. Great advances have been made in the field of throwing down recently. 5'4 Spud Webb won the 1986 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Slovenian guard Marko Milic once dunked over a Honda Del Sol. Vince Carter leaped over the head of a French seven-footer at the Olympics this past summer...
Imagine the publicity you'd get as the first woman ever to dunk in a professional game. When the commercials insist that WNBA players have "got game," a picture of your thunderous dunk over some poor member of the Miami Sol would be there to back it up. A lot of fans would think that the chance of seeing you dunk was worth the price of admission. I would...