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...soul, and an overall acid bath of Newman's corrosive wit. It's music of an ambition and quality not often heard outside the work of Stephen Sondheim (whom Newman reveres), and it is performed on the album with tremendous brio by James Taylor, who sports a no-sweat self-mocking cool as God; Linda Ronstadt as the tremulous, winsome Margaret; Bonnie Raitt as Martha, a piece of trade tough enough to wring out the devil's heart; and Don Henley as Faust, reborn here as a guitar-strumming freshman at Notre Dame who's slacker enough to sign Satan...
...Speed King have played to four draws. Anand, playing white, actually had Kasparov on the ropes last Thursday, but then Anand turned cautious and let an opportunity on Move 20 get away, much to the disappointment of some of the observers. "He should have sacrificed the bishop," said one sweat-shirted expert. "Maybe he lost his nerve...
Speaking to hundreds of HDS faculty and students gathered at the Memorial Church, West, who is professor of the philosophy of religion at the Divinity School and professor of Afro-American studies, said the tradition of spirituality embodied by HDS, attained through "sweat and labor," is one of the school's main assets...
...night fell, we camped on high ground where we would be less vulnerable to attack than down in the valley. The usual tumult of rattling pots, squealing animals, shouting men and billowing fires began. I threw down my pack, my carbine, my helmet damp with cold sweat, and slumped to the ground. I felt drained. The lark was over. The exhilaration of a cocky 25-year-old American had evaporated in a single burst of gunfire. Somebody got killed today. Somebody was liable to get killed tomorrow, and the day after. This was not war movies on a Saturday afternoon...
...sweat's on the record, and the century's greatest pop singer at last has a book that fits his personality and takes full measure of his stature," says TIME's Jay Cocks. "Blithe, respectful, snappy and smart, Will Friedwald catches the creative fire of the singer, the implacable perfectionism that made his music seem both effortless and passionate and that ensured it would not just endure but remain definitive." The writer spoke with dozens of Sinatra sidemen, contemporaries (like Jo Stafford and Tony Bennett) and songwriters. "But this book is in no sense an authorized religious journey," Cocks says...