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MUSIC A tender, tart and terrific album from Neneh Cherry...
...minute she is tender, singing with a lilt as soft and sweet as cotton candy. The next she drives her points home by rapping tart, in-your-face rhymes as pungent as picante salsa. Afro-British singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry, 27, exhibited this sweet yet fiery (and fervently feminist) demeanor on her memorable 1989 debut album, Raw Like Sushi. The alluring dichotomy continues on her sensational new release, Homebrew. Call it the essence of being Neneh...
Here the Porter treasures range from the composer's tart, crisply enunciated delivery of Anything Goes to Gertrude Lawrence's lascivious rendition of The Physician. Some choices bow, gratifyingly, to the obvious. Ethel Merman trumpets Blow, Gabriel, Blow; Fred Astaire croons Night and Day; and Mary Martin purrs her way through My Heart Belongs to Daddy. But more interesting are the unexpected matches and offbeat finds. Marion Harris, a now forgotten star, strikes a provocative balance of plaintive charm and rhythmic sophistication in a 1930 recording of You Do Something to Me. For Miss Otis Regrets, Ethel Waters' well-known...
...creamy bosom rising and falling like a tempermental souffle, her tart mouth pursed in distaste...
...pleasures. The job of deputy chief requires her to help keep watch over one of TIME's most crucial bureaus. But her feel for day-to-day journalism ensures that she spends much of her time reporting and writing as well. And what writing. Carlson's flavorful prose, lucid, tart and funny, is the hallmark of a journalist who sees even the biggest stories in distinctly human terms. "Being a reporter in Washington is like talking across one big backyard fence," she says. "Congress, the White House, the people at the agencies -- they're always trading stories with each other...