Criticism and Prayer

Please excuse sleazy name-dropping of my sometime clients but
there are tales about performance design criticism and
unexpectedly grim professional erasure in the news here:

Madonna in NY Times tomorrow:

"People that are intimidated or threatened by my point of view
are always trying to diminish me or erase me or negate me," she
says. "They've been saying the same thing all through my
career. It's like saying I'm a disco tart that's going to go
away, and then it was that I'm materialistic. . . . I am just
doing what I want to do."


Merle Julia in NY Newsday Friday:

"Pray for Raul's recovery." Do, please.
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