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During the 1970s, when the pair discovered each other, it seemed like a bizarre match: Baryshnikov, the supreme classical-ballet stylist, and Tharp, whose roots were in '60s rock and pop. But together they stretched the boundaries of dance. Tharp was one of many choreographers who were trying to harness their talents to the Russian's genius, and mostly these efforts flopped. But her Push Comes to Shove (1976) showed a different, up-to-the- minute Baryshnikov -- impish, racy and reckless -- and a new idiom for classical ballet...
...godfather of the British soul invasion -- and its finest vocal stylist -- has flaming red dreadlocks and a ruby-embedded front tooth. Manchester's Mick Hucknall, 32, the peppery-tongued lead singer of Simply Red, started a punk band in the early '80s but quickly tired of punk's anger. Sensing a widespread hunger for American soul sounds, he and three Manchester pals formed Simply Red in 1984. Their first No. 1 hit, Holding Back the Years, harked back to the fluid ease of the pure soul classics of the '60s and showcased Hucknall's dapper, crying tenor...
...hoping for a trickle-down effect. "I just want to get my hands on Hillary's roots," gushes Robin Weir, Nancy Reagan's former hairdresser. To boost his chances, he sent his salon manager to California this week to have her hair done by Hillary Clinton's favorite stylist, Cristophe. Says Weir: "We want to get across to him that we know this town...
...shot." Not for long. After a weekend of consulting with her husband, she called back and said, in a typical old-Mary locution, "I think we have reason to talk." The new Mary emerged quickly. Out went the pinstripe wardrobe. In came smart suits, always by Irish designers. A stylist gave her a fashionable haircut, and she began to apply some makeup. Cynical? Not in her view. "I felt it was a way to project that I was serious about the campaign," she says, "and that had its own effect. I saw myself less as the bluestocking and more...
...Rabbit is Rich is, I think, oneveryone's list of greatest American works," saidBluementhal, who teaches Updike's novelSelf-Consciousness in his course. "He'sboth a consummate prose stylist and a reallybroad-ranging thinker and critic...certainly hewill go down as the essential American novelist ofthis period...