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...Whitney Houston didn't want to sing on the sound track of Waiting to Exhale. But that was before singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth ("Babyface") Edmonds got to her. The way Houston recalls it, Edmonds told her, "I just want you to hear this one song. If you like it, you'll do it." It turned out he hadn't written any lyrics; all he had was a melody. "He started laughing," says Houston. And then he started playing the song on the piano. Houston joined in, improvising: "Count on me through thick and thin/ A friendship that will never...
...just a pride thing, only to have lost to Princeton," senior right back Whitney Smith said. "They deserved to win the Ivy League. We're not embittered at them--well, we're definitely embittered because we wanted to win the Ivy League--but they were the better team that...
...game, ending a stretch of mostly even play. Tiger Kathleen Kelly broke deep into the Crimson scoring arc and dribbled to the right post, where freshman goalie Anya Cowan met her. Kelly then passed across the goal mouth to teammate Kate Carroll, and Carroll pushed a shot past senior Whitney Smith, who was trying to guard the left post area...
...Goldin's pictures, of a woman's thigh with a purplish mark, was called Heart-Shaped Bruise. That might well have been the name for the retrospective of her work that runs through Jan. 5 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Romantic melancholy is Goldin's true north, the mood she always returns to. Her friends laugh and party. They show off their tattoos and tutus. But they also brood and question the dead air with their eyes. They die from AIDS. In her self-portraits Goldin shows the injuries of a serious beating...
...Sexual Dependency. And what Goldin has learned since then about the inexplicable pleasures of life is evident in a wonderful recent shot of her mother laughing. But when her own life's work faces you in bulk, at least in the 275-picture bulk hauled up by the Whitney, the slack starts to show. Goldin is a diarist, with a diarist's instincts for the ways into her own saga but also the same weakness for the dull stretches...