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...VH1’s “Behind the Music” demonstrates, with fame, sadly, comes the consequences of fame. There have been a few dates recently who were less than subtle about their fantasies of riding to their own sexual fame on Ms. Krinsky’s back—yes, literally. As a result, Krinsky has begun to proceed a little more cautiously in her own love life. However, she says that there have also been men at the other extreme, who fear that a minor gaffe in an evening with her would transform them from upright...
Coming upon your article "Jazzed About Ms. Jones," reviewing the debut album of singer Norah Jones on the Blue Note label [MUSIC, March 18], I assumed I'd be reading about jazz. But no, the story revealed the anemic jazz industry's crossover bid to dress up a pop singer as a jazz artist. Jazz still resonates with life in places like Latin America and Northern Europe, but in America it has become irrelevant and moribund. LEE M. COHEN Belmont Heights, Calif...
...Dear Ms. Newman...
...With Ms. Lewinsky on HBO, March is Monica Flashback Month, a good time to remember that McCarthyism may be gone but witch-hunts will always be with us. A good time, too, for The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 warning against communal hysteria, which uses the Salem witch trials as its model for hypocrisy. This lucid if uneven Broadway staging stars a ferocious Liam Neeson, still the thinking man's hunk. Laura Linney has the more subdued role as his suffering wife. But her gift for finding fire in the quietest corners of normality makes her Neeson's equal...
...skills of all other students. This emphasis on actually learning material should be at the heart of a good education. Yet the preeminence of tests today takes away from the actual importance of intellectual discovery. And, moreover, this focus on testing ultimately leads to extreme behavior such as Ms. Chapman?...