Word: transcending
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...Ertegun and his partner Jerry Wexler needed three things: a performer to summarize and transcend the blues form; a white singer the kids could call their own; and a writer-producer team to synthesize black music for the mass market that didn?t even know it needed a seismic sonic jolt. With these elements, Ertegun and Wexler knew, they could revolutionize musicmaking and, more important, music listening. Just their luck, and their smarts, they got all three...
...then there is our main cover image, Julia Roberts. Some readers may be taken aback to see her in the company of Philip Roth and August Wilson and Ang Lee. But by picking her as America's Best Movie Star, we tried to explore how a performer can transcend her roles and exert such a powerful appeal to audiences that tens of millions are as moved by what happens to her off the screen as on. In an age saturated with celebrities, where a White House intern not only becomes world famous but whose emotional life is laid...
Like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, August didn't just write a great play, he has written volumes of good, better and best plays. Fences was the third in his series about blacks in each decade of the 20th century. But August's plays transcend race. When Carole Shorenstein Hays, who produced Fences, saw the play for the first time, she said she was watching a "universal play, and when push comes to shove, families are alike...
...became a transsexual woman in the '70s. But today she (sorry, Riki--"s/he" isn't a word yet) refuses to identify with either gender. And her group, the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, doesn't limit itself to trans issues. Instead, GenderPAC works to protect everyone's right to transcend gender stereotypes. A tiny niche? Tell that to the Nevada woman who was fired after she stopped wearing makeup; GenderPAC is aiding her in court. The group also helped the mother of Brandon Teena, who was killed after friends discovered he had female genitalia. (Hillary Swank played Teena in Boys...
...would seem like a freak," he recalls. But after a few embarrassing stumbles?he couldn't even find the school rest rooms anymore?he admitted he needed help. For Erik, the key was acceptance?not to fight his disability but to learn to work within it; not to transcend it but to understand fully what he was capable of achieving within it; not to pretend he had sight but to build systems that allowed him to excel without it. "It's tragic?I know blind people who like to pass themselves off as being able to see," Erik says. "What...