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...American art song is still alive and well, judging by this lovely CD, on which a studioful of opera stars, including Renee Fleming, Sylvia McNair and Frederica von Stade, performs 26 songs by Californian Heggie, who is currently adapting Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera. Heggie sets poems in English by poets old (Emily Dickinson) and new (Philip Littell) in the Samuel Barber/Ned Rorem manner--agreeably lyrical, unambiguously tonal--and his big-league cast responds with obvious relish...
...EXAMPLES] The Nanny's Sylvia Fine (Renee Taylor) Seinfeld's Helen Seinfeld (Liz Sheridan) Mad About You's Sylvia Buchman (Cynthia Harris...
...DIED. SYLVIA SIDNEY, 88, iconic actress from Hollywood's golden era whose career, spanning seven decades, saw her graduate from a specialty in victim roles to tough-talking, chain-smoking senior citizen; in New York City. In the 1930s, Sidney reigned as one of Paramount's top actresses, starring in several of the era's melodramas-with-a-message. After a hiatus of 17 years, she returned to the movies in 1973 and was nominated for a supporting Oscar for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. She won a Golden Globe for her part in the 1985 TV movie An Early Frost...
...founded the Women's Social and Political Union. It was, Emmeline Pankhurst wrote later, "simply a suffrage army in the field." The charismatic, dictatorial eldest daughter Christabel emerged in her teens as the W.S.P.U.'s strategist and an indomitable activist, with nerves of tungsten. Mrs. Pankhurst's second daughter Sylvia, the artist, pioneered the corporate logo: as designer and scene painter of the W.S.P.U., she created banners, costumes and badges in the suffragist livery of white, purple and green. Though the family split later over policy, their combined talents powered from the beginning an astonishingly versatile tactical machine...
West's most recent books, including thebest-selling Race Matters (1993), Jewsand Blacks: Let the Healing Begin (1995),written with Michael Lerner, and The WarAgainst Parents: What We Can Do for America'sBeleaguered Moms and Dads (1998), co-authoredwith Sylvia Ann Hewlett, all focus on currentthemes designed to appeal to a mass audience...