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PAUL McCARTNEY: FLOWERS IN THE DIRT (Capitol). McCartney goes back to the future by returning to his old Beatles label and collaborating with a shrewd, spiky co-writer, Elvis Costello. That Day Is Done and My Brave Face show both these lads in top form, and the entire album has a buoyancy that has eluded McCartney for years...
...year when thousands of Harvard women went to Washington, D.C. to march for women's rights, Radcliffe appointed a president afraid of the feminist "label," as Wilson has called...
...plays an unlikable cuckolder. Last week he began scouting locations for Dances with Wolves, a drama about the Sioux nation, in which he will star and make his debut as a director. Still, it makes him itch that his recent roles have earned him a Hunk-of-the-Month label. "I have the same problem with stardom that I have with royalty," he says. "They're judged not by the quality of their ideas but by their birthright. I didn't set out to be a star. If you do, you engage in manipulation. You do stuff to be liked...
...international laws govern the christening of countries: the label that sticks is determined by the tastes or even the sanity of its rulers. Anti- colonialism, however, is the most common rationale for national renaming. During the 1950s and '60s, anti-colonialism swept through the newly independent nations of Africa. The Gold Coast dubbed itself Ghana, in honor of an ancient African empire that was located hundreds of miles from the modern nation. When the Belgian Congo became independent in 1960, it renamed itself the Republic of the Congo. Eleven years later, President Joseph Mobutu rechristened it the Republic of Zaire...
...rather stiffly called the "landscape paradigm." Over the years, it has been landscape (its closeup detail and far extension, its variety of light and color) to which Frankenthaler's images were kin -- if not in descriptive convention, then certainly in general feeling. You know before you read the label that it is the sea, and not an abstract blue surface, that spreads out in Ocean Drive West...