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...backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy sax solos by David "Fathead" Newman. This was irrepressible, good-timey music, as if the early Charles had been absolved of sin and guilt and was finally permitted to express unmitigated joy. In Charles? gravelly vocals, joy sounds like the residue of a lifetime of pain. It?s not what?s been gained; it?s what?s left...
...This fascinating stockroom of imports from The Motherland is a browser?s joy. Baskets and bins filled with delightfully rustic wood and metal sculpture; jewelry; and cloth book jackets and bags are less than $30. Other ?art? is priced in hundreds of dollars...
...Otis Redding irresistibly call me east again. I purchase a cassette from "Powell" at 125th and Fifth Avenue called "Classic Soul 2" for $5. Blithely bootleg oldies, this compilation of soul tunes is the bargain of the day. It's the essence of this new Harlem Renaissance: Faith, Joy, Beauty and Soul wrapped in global entrepreneurial vision. It's been said faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains. So, mountains don't get in Harlem...
Barring some unforeseen disaster, Lance Armstrong will win his third Tour de France Sunday. The 29-year-old Texan will once again be photographed riding down the Champs Elysees, fingers pointed skyward, something between relief and joy playing across his gaunt features. As of Friday, Armstrong held a virtually insurmountable 5-minute lead over his closest rival...
...desk, he worked from inside Einhorn's mind, having studied every word in the 63 different 150-page journals Einhorn left behind. Among the lines that stopped him, revealing the cold depths of Einhorn's darkness, were these: "Sadism - sounds nice - run it over your tongue - contemplate with joy the pains of others." "To beat a woman - what joy." "The violence that flowed through my being tonight...could result in the murder of that which I seem to love so deeply...