Word: turneritis
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Conceptualism remains vastly influential in contemporary art, leading to seemingly baffling pieces that scandalize or bemuse audiences still. (Martin Creed's 2001 Turner Prize-winning installation, of an empty room in which the lights repeatedly went on and off, is a famous example...
...read J.K. Rowling's tribute to Gordon Brown with incredulity, only tempered by the knowledge that her speciality is fiction. Graham Turner, KIRKBYMOORSIDE, ENGLAND...
...Worked with artists from Ike and Tina Turner ("River Deep-Mountain High") to the Ramones (End of the Century) to Leonard Cohen (Death of a Ladies' Man) and the Beatles - both as a group (Let It Be) and individually (John Lennon's "Instant Karma" and "Imagine," George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord...
...early '60s, worked for Atlantic Records (and for himself) as a producer, songwriter and occasional session musician (he played guitar on the Drifters' "On Broadway"). In 1966, the Ike and Tina Turner song "River Deep-Mountain High" did not hit the Top 40 in the U.S., leading a wounded Spector to begin his on-again, off-again retreat from the world...
...Robert Turner, a law professor at the University of Virginia, took the somewhat charitable view that "good people, fearful for the safety of their fellow Americans, made bad decisions." That was echoed by Philip Zelikow, a former State Department lawyer who wrote a memo opposing the interrogation techniques. The CIA's program represented a "large collective failure" of both parties, Zelikow said. He called for an independent investigation along the lines of the 9/11 commission - which Zelikow himself directed. (Zelikow's previous claim that his anti-torture memo was suppressed by the Bush Administration didn't get much attention...