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Madonna censors herself? It sure looked that way when the singer decided not to release a video for her album American Life because of controversy over its war-related imagery--like a scene in which she tosses a hand grenade to a George W. Bush look-alike, who uses it to light a cigar. Madonna, who has described herself as "not pro-Iraq" but "pro-peace," said she did not "want to risk offending anyone." She's just the latest star to feel the new wartime mood. --By Desa Philadelphia...
...band is made up of veterans of the Northwest pop scene: lead singer and guitarist Amy Linton, formerly of Henry’s Dress, and former members of Poundsign# and Track Star. In previous years, the band has opened for Sleater-Kinney, Belle and Sebastian and many other major figures in the current underground pop scene...
...John Singer Sargent had a singular talent for swathing his portrait subjects in an exotic and provocative mystique...
Much of the enforcement for Early Decision agreements was undertaken by high schools, who could endanger their relationships with colleges if their students backed out of binding agreements. According to Stephen Singer, the college counselor at Horace Mann School in the Bronx, Horace Mann required students applying early to multiple colleges—and their parents—to sign a written promise to attend their Early Decision school if accepted. This agreement was included in their files, he said, and specified that if they tried to renege on their agreements, Horace Mann would call the relevant colleges and inform...
...after abdominal surgery, was working-class New York's most exquisite son. He was raised by his mother, on and off the dole. He shined shoes after school near the New York Public Library on 42nd Street (in the winter of 1940, he sometimes shared the sidewalk with folk singer Woody Guthrie). He was a New York classic, the book-hungry street genius, his intellect so fresh, so vital--and so much fun--because it had been built from the pavement...