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Seventies style has been rekindled for the alternative music scene. But the alternative retro-movement has forgotten the 70s' most lasting effect on contemporary pop culture: the music. Groups like Chic and Kool and the Gang paved the way for artists such as Cameo, Chakka Kahn, and even Tina Turner's 80s chart-toppers. Seventies music, as a whole, had a major influence on the succeeding decade...
Last year's anointment of Tina Brown as editor of the New Yorker magazine reflected an attempt at repositioning meant to regain the confidence of straying advertisers. The appointment was also meant to reinvigorate a magazine which had grown indulgent and uncertain of its constituency and its style, preserved in the cultural amber...
...portend for the New Yorker. Brown was known primarily for rescuing tottering magazines; she was the chief architect of Vanity Fair's transformation into the hot book of the '80s. VF reflected that decade's zeitgeist, a dubious mix of camp and celebrity worship underlaid with thinly disguised cynicism. Tina Brown transformed it into the kind of magazine which would reside illicitly in the sock drawer of serious reader: titillating but not substantial...
...September 27, Tina Brown and her husband Harold Evans, president and publisher of Random House Trade Publishing Group, hosted a party at the New York Public Library to celebrate the publication of Richard Avedon's newest book. The usual suspects, leftovers from the '80s, were present in their sequined splendor, glorying in their celebrity...
...preaching reform. The President, he said, should evoke the styles of F.D.R. and J.F.K. After delivering that message during a Thursday luncheon with senior Clinton advisers, Kerrey went to an afternoon movie, What's Love Got to Do with It. That prompted one waggish official to suggest that Tina Turner be enlisted to lobby the Senator...