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...also offers a mix; it's mostly music from the movie score, plus two pallid numbers by Bryan Adams (a duet with Barbra) and Richard Marx, with just one lush solo turn by Streisand. She's too good to be on the same CD, or in the same ZIP code, as Adams and Marx. On Evita (out now), Madonna finds herself a classier singing partner: her film co-star Antonio Banderas. His vocals have a gutsy charisma; as for Madonna, she sounds earnest if a bit thin. Still, the first single, You Must Love Me, is a winner...
...candidate for the wrong reasons. But my father votes in the majority for the same reason the majority does: he likes the winner better. "I vote for the best man regardless of the party," says my old man. His method is not scientific. He may watch a debate--and zip around the dial during the lulls. He doesn't really vote his pocketbook, at least not in a what's-in-it-for-me way. "I want someone who I think is talking to me," he says...
...artist of the utmost profundity and difficulty that we assume, on peering into the well of his talent, that the fault for not recognizing masterpieces in it lies with ourselves. It's like the familiar Barnett Newman problem: having for so long been told that the famous "Zip" in Newman's canvases contains the unnameable name of God or the tragic condition of humankind, one must make an almost perverse effort of will to look past all the midrash and see a vertical stripe...
DIED. JAMES EDWARD DAY, 82, former Postmaster General who inaugurated the zip code in 1963; in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Day's Zoning Improvement Plan system was inspired by Time Inc.'s zoned mail deliveries...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "So many people have said, 'Why do you want to get in that mess [politics]? It can't be fixed. America's already gone to pot.' And I say...'For heaven's sake, if everybody thought like you, we might as well zip it up and go home...