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...newest, kookiest kid on the block was WCAM's Jerry Blavat, self-dubbed the Geator With the Heater, the Boss With the Hot Sauce. Blavat had crashed Bob Horn's early "Bandstand" show when he was 13, and somehow avoided having sex with the host. Instead, he won lots of dance contests and soon was running The Committee, a panel of teens that chose records and monitored the troops. At 20 he got on radio and quickly established himself as a pioneer rock archivist, running perhaps the first-ever oldies show. And not something simple, like pre-Army Elvis. Wildly...
...Puryear knows only too well, an abstract commemoration of Du Sable would invite the criticism that the pioneer was being reduced, as blacks in Western art so often have been, to a kind of "facelessness," an absence where a strong presence should be. "It has to be figurative, somehow," says Puryear--though the problem, he adds, is "not about likeness but about capturing a spirit," which he hopes to recover from his long study of African tribal sculpture...
...every fashion wave since his Fall 1995 collection for Gucci. That was the show that brought about a rapprochement between the stylish and the '70s, reacquainting humanity with velvet hip huggers and satin shirts in a way that allowed us to see an inner beauty or relevance we had somehow overlooked for nigh on two decades. Ford gave that silhouette's androgyny a new spark, suggesting that being located somewhere on a male-female continuum rather than in one gender camp opens up more possibilities...
...compromise was made (and somehow you don't expect Norton to be overruled later in the week) to appease the state GOPers whom Bush offended late last month when he came to Florida to strike an environmental pose at the Everglades National Park with a bunch of Democrats. It may even break the supply-side stranglehold Florida put on the House when it engineered a 247 to 164 vote last month to bar exploration in the eastern gulf until April...
...Yates children had big blooming smiles, the comprehensive kind that somehow manage to showcase every tooth. That was their mother's smile, judging from the family photo her husband showed the media last Thursday...