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...Marley, a poor Jamaican from Kingston's Trenchtown slum, who brought reggae to international prominence in the '70s with his albums Catch a Fire, Rastaman Vibration and Exodus. An outspoken champion of racial equality and social justice, Marley was also a tireless promoter of Rastafarianism, the pro-African sect whose followers grow their hair into long, matted dreadlocks and smoke marijuana, or ganja, as part of a religious rite...
...agenda, naming one of America's most distinguished actresses, Jane Alexander, 53, as the agency's new chairman. Said Clinton: "The endowment's mission of fostering and preserving our nation's cultural heritage is too important to remain mired in the problems of the past. She will be a tireless and articulate spokesperson for the value of bringing art into the lives of all Americans...
Despite a tireless effort by police to piece together the Extension School student's convoluted and illicit past, to many whom have known and studied him, Hogue remains a mystery...
...brand- new 1948 musical." He means that AIN'T BROADWAY GRAND, which opened last week on the Great White Way, is a deliberate throwback to the aesthetic described in one of its lyrics as "tall dames and low comedy." Full of loud and tuneful music, skimpy costumes, tireless dancers, ageless baggy-pants comics, chutzpah and pizazz, the show celebrates the life and craft of producer Mike Todd, a dime-store Ziegfeld best remembered these days as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's eight husbands. That biographical fact is a little inconvenient for the narrative, which builds to a reconciliation with...
From Robert Hughes, TIME's tireless art critic, comes Culture of Complaint (Oxford University Press), a lacerating study of the decline in American values that will surely raise amens among many people, as well as hackles among others. The book is an expanded version of a three-part lecture series that Hughes gave early last year at the New York Public Library and subsequently summarized in a TIME cover story, "The Fraying of America" ((Feb. 3, 1992)). Among his complaints: the distortion of the ideals of multiculturalism, the erosion of the English language by partisans of the Politically Correct...