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...Buddhist mantra psalm of a two thousand-year-old Japanese dialect. Or Julia Scher came back with a spoken word piece about engineering for the environment. So to make a long story short, you can have Julia Scher from MIT sharing a space with someone from Wu-Tang Clan, or Mariko Mori, a conceptual artist singing a Buddhist mantra, skipping to Kool Keith talking about being a schizophrenic. This is the theater of voices. On another level, it's entirely virtual. None of these people interacted with one another; they interacted with these beats and fragments of sound...
Take the rebel romanticism of Jodeci and the pleading sincerity of Boyz II Men, and add a dash of the martial-arts mythologizing of the Wu-Tang Clan. Let simmer, and you'd have something approximating the R.-and-B. vocal quartet Dru Hill. Dru Hill's vocal recipe doesn't always work--the group sometimes settles for flashy sentiment instead of striving for true emotion. Still, numbers like the thoughtful remake of The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind) and the delicately felt ballad Angel make this CD really cook...
...neurotic, but neurotic's good!" quips Sarah Payne Stuart's family psychiatrist in Stuart's My First Cousin Once Removed, a painfully funny and poignant memoir about life in the Boston Brahmin Lowell clan (known best as a family running short on both money and sanity). The book centers specifically on the neurotic and manic depressive genius of Robert Lowell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning confessional poet-cum-activist and titular "first cousin" of the author's mother (hence the author is "removed" from him by one generation). Sarah Payne Stuart '73 treats "Bobby" (as the family called Robert Lowell...
With 2Pac and the Notorious B.I.G. six feet under, Dr. Dre and Wu-Tang Clan brazenly shifting towards hip-hop sounds and stars like Snoop Dogg content to churn out uninspired drivel like "Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told," gangster rap is in danger of becoming little more than innocuous dance music...
...starred opposite Cindy Crawford, married Kim Basinger and played a man pining for the affection of Lara Flynn Boyle? The answer--a Baldwin brother! Though the first two mighty accomplishments must be credited to older brothers William and Alec respectively, youngest member of the clan Stephen has had his share of successes--including starring with Boyle in the love-triangle movie Threesome. A jack-of-all-genres, Stephen has played a rider with the Pony Express on TV's Young Riders, an unwitting biosphere resident in the comedy Bio-Dome, and now a crimesolving New York City...